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Cost Analysis

The Cost Analysis provides automatic analysis of systems, highlights anomalies that might be occurring within them, and presents information from the analysis in both quantitative metrics about the technologies, and also applies cost information to the analysis.

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.

The following is a list of the Cost Analysis factory supplied objects in the Cost Analysis folder:

Current Analyses

This object displays the current cost analyses results of your site. The cost metrics displayed are based on the values from the Customer Site Costs Data object and information obtained from the storage engine. Each row in the object is a current cost analytical scenario. Some of the Current Analysis object scenarios are:

• What are the costs of maintaining any excess DASD capacity?
• What are my annual Storage Administration costs?
• What is the overall cost wasted or unnecessary DASD?
• What are the costs of maintaining data sets not referenced in the past year?
• What are my total costs associated with excess and over-allocated DASD?

Historical Analyses

This object displays the historic cost analyses results of your site. The cost metrics displayed are based on the values from the Customer Site Costs Data object and information obtained from the storage engine. Each row in the object is a historical cost analytical scenario. That is, the table shows the same scenarios as the Current Analyses object but it has repeated scenario entries, one for each time period that the information is calculated.

Customer Site Costs Data

This object displays the values that the Cost Analysis uses along with object data obtained from the storage engine to calculate quantitative and cost metrics for the Cost Analysis objects. You configured the Cost/Value field values during the discipline installation in the Cost Analysis E4HI0011 configuration job. You can change the Cost/Value field values by editing them in the Details pane of this object, or by editing and resubmitting the E4HI0011 configuration job. For information about how to change these values, see the CA Chorus Administration Guide.

The following is a list of the factory supplied objects in the Base System Analysis subfolder under the Cost Analysis folder:

Current Base Analyses

This object displays the current quantitative analyses results of your site. The quantitative metrics displayed are based on the values from the Customer Site Costs Data object and information obtained from the storage engine. Each row in the object is a current quantitative analytical scenario. Some of the scenarios available in the Current Base Analysis object are:

• How much excess unused DASD capacity is being maintained?
• How much DASD space is being wasted by over-allocated data sets?
• How much DASD is being held by data sets not referenced in the past year?
• How much of my overall DASD usage is wasted or unnecessary?

Historical Base Analyses

This object displays the historic quantitative analyses results of your site. The quantitative metrics displayed are based on the values from the Customer Site Costs Data object and information obtained from the storage engine. Each row in the object is a historical quantitative analytical scenario. That is, the table shows the same scenarios as the Current Base Analyses object, but it has repeated scenario entries, one for each time period that the information is calculated.