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Navigating Between Cost Analysis Object Scenarios and Storage Engine Objects

Cost Analysis comes with a set of standard system analysis scripts that provide various cost and quantitative analysis of your environment to help you manage your data center costs. The calculations of the analysis are based on the values shown in the Customer Site Costs Data object and data provided by the storage engine.

Each row in the Cost Analysis objects is an analytical scenario. You can select an analytical scenario row and then open the storage engine object that provided the data used with the information in the Customer Site Costs Data object to calculate the information displayed in the scenario. You can hop from the scenario to the storage engine object by using the Navigation Actions provided for the scenario. When you select a Navigation Action to open the corresponding storage engine object, you can return to the Cost Analysis object scenario by selecting the line item in the storage engine object and the appropriate Navigation Action.

Example of navigating between a Cost Analysis object scenario and storage engine objects

The following is an example of hopping between the Current Analysis object scenario: What are the costs of maintaining any excess DASD capacity? and the storage engine object Storage Groups. And then returning to the Current Analysis object scenario What are the costs of maintaining any excess DASD capacity?.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to CA Chorus.
2. Add the Investigator module to your dashboard from the Module Library, and click Start New Investigation.

   The Investigator opens.

3. Select Storage from the discipline drop-down list.
4. Expand the Cost Analysis folder.
5. Click the Current Analyses object to open it.
6. Click the selection box at the beginning of the scenario (row) What are the costs of maintaining any excess DASD capacity?, to open the Actions pane on the right side of the Investigator.
7. Click the Navigation action Show total online DASD Capacity, to open the Storage Groups object.

   The Storage Groups object opens with the following filter applied:

   'SG Name' = TOTAL
   

   The Storage Group with the fixed name of TOTAL and type ONL is generated by the storage engine and contains the totals for all online volumes. You can scroll to the right and sort the table to find the information you are interested in.

   The displayed row is selected which causes the Action pane to open on the right side of the Investigator.

8. Click one of the following Navigation actions:

   Show current cost summaries

   Opens the Current Analyses object with the current scenario What are the costs of maintaining any excess DASD capacity? being displayed.

   Show history cost summaries

   Opens the Historical Analyses object with all the historical scenarios What are the costs of maintaining any excess DASD capacity? being displayed.

9. (Optional) Click the Current Analyses object in the Storage tree, to display all the scenarios in the object.

   You have navigated between the Current Analyses object and the Storage Groups object. Viewing the Storage Groups object allows you to see space availability and usage details in your storage groups.