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As the number of management information systems installations
using Hewlett Packard's (DEC) VAX/VMS systems continues to
grow, the need to systematically plan, control, and evaluate
the VMS environment is becoming increasingly important.
CA has responded to this need by developing the CA MICS
VAX/VMS Analyzer, a data integration application that
processes raw data for analyzing and managing VMS operating
system information.
CA MICS CA
Data CA MICS Data Database Management
Source Integration Information Support
Product Areas Applications Output
_________ ________ _________
| VMS | | | | _______ | ________
|Utilities| | | ||VAX/VMS|| |CA MICS |
|---------| |CA MICS | ||Acctg. || |Acctg. &| _________
|Acctg. |->|VAX/VMS |->||_______||->|Charge- | | |
|Monitor | |Analyzer| | _______ | | back |->| Reports |
|Anly/Disk| | | ||VAX/VMS|| |________| | |
|Diskquota| | | ||Monitor||------------->| |
|Show | | | ||_______|| ________ |Inquiries|
|_________| |________| | _______ | |CA MICS | | |
||VAX/VMS|| |Capacity|->|_________|
||Sys Usg||->|Planner | |_________|
||_______|| |________|
|_________|
Figure 1-1. CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer Data Flow
The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer provides the capability to
display information on selected users, groups of users,
hardware subsystems, and other categories. It also can be
used to track system problems and assist in performing an
in-depth audit of users of the various VMS facilities. An
account code structure further enables VMS activity to be
reported by any other relevant category.
The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer processes data from VMS
Accounting (VMS ACCOUNTING), VMS Monitor Utility (VMS
MONITOR), and the CA MICS VMS System Usage collection routine
(CA MICS DEXSUS). System Usage data collection includes the
VMS Analyze/Disk_Structure Utility, the VMS SYSMAN Utility
for DISKQUOTA SHOW information, and other information from
VMS SHOW and Lexical functions. This combination of data
sources contains system, file, and user activity information,
making it an ideal data source in CA MICS for managing the
VMS environment.
VMS ACCOUNTING provides utilization information on process
and image resource usage, system initialization, system
access, and print statistics. VMS MONITOR is a systems
management tool that collects I/O statistics, page management
statistics, CPU states and use, DECnet traffic, and other
vital information in collection intervals. CA MICS DEXSUS is
a collection routine that combines data from several VMS
utilities and functions that measure disk space usage by
volume, directory, and individual VMS files, disk quota
information, plus a number of useful system parameter
settings.
The data from VMS ACCOUNTING, VMS MONITOR, and CA MICS
DEXSUS, when integrated into the CA MICS database, describes
system performance data for managing system resources and
utilization data for studying user activity and billing users
for computer resource usage.
Because this data is stored in the CA MICS database in a
format common to all CA MICS products, you can use standard
CA MICS facilities to integrate CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer data
with any other CA MICS management support applications such
as financial management and capacity management. CA MICS
offers online data access through the CA MICS Information
Center Facility (MICF), which is a full-screen, menu-based
processor that allows you to perform data analysis, inquiry,
retrieval, and report functions.
The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer integrates VMS performance and
utilization data into the CA MICS database, thereby creating
the CA MICS VAX/VMS Monitor, Accounting, and System Usage
information areas that interface with:
o CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback - The data provided to
CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback supports accounting for
consumed resources (e.g., CPU time), physical I/Os (e.g.,
the number of direct I/Os), disk space occupancy (e.g.,
megabyte hours of storage) and many other measures of
resource utilization.
o CA MICS Capacity Planner - The data provided to CA MICS
Capacity Planner allows forecasting of VMS workloads and
system utilizations. The Capacity Planner includes a
standard applications for VAX/VMS CPU Planning.
This section contains the following topics:
1.1 Primary Areas of Application
1.2 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities
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