Terminology

Storage Engine

Refers to the CA Vantage system on the z/OS host. The storage engine is the back-end product on the z/OS host that provides information to the CA Chorus for Storage Management user-interface.

Storage Management interface

Refers to the storage engine web client (the CA Vantage web client). In the CA Chorus interface, the Quick Link to the Storage Management interface is "Manage Storage Resources". When selected, the Storage Management interface opens in a separate browser window.

Usually, the CA Chorus and the Storage Management interfaces use the same terminology for the same object categories, objects, and options. The Storage Management interface uses storage engine terminology. The following list details a few exception examples:

Object Categories: Some object category names differ in the CA Chorus Investigator interface and the Storage Management interface. For example, in the Storage Management interface object tree, an object category is named CA Vantage Internal Management. In the CA Chorus Investigator interface, it is named Storage Platform Administration.
Object Names: Some object names differ in the CA Chorus Investigator interface and the Storage Management interface. For example, in the Storage Management interface, the first object in the Automation and Logging category is named Server (Event Type) Status. In the CA Chorus Investigator interface, it is named Automation Event Types.

You can launch the storage engine Host Configuration Client (Config Client) to set storage engine system parameters from the Tools menu in the Storage Management interface.

Storage Engine Windows Client

Refers to the CA Vantage Windows Client. The storage engine windows client interface is a stand-alone, Windows-based user interface. CA Chorus for Storage Management users access it to do the following tasks:

Create storage engine Log Scripts to collect storage metrics data for the Time Series Facility.
Create storage engine Automation Scripts to generate storage engine messages for Alerts.
Launch the storage engine Host Configuration Client (Config Client) to set storage engine system parameters. The Config Client can also be launched from the Storage Management interface which can be launched from the Quick Links module in CA Chorus.