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1.1 Primary Areas of Application


The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer provides data and reporting
capabilities that aid in managing the VMS environment in the
following areas:

 o  Capacity Planning - The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer
    maintains a database of historical VMS usage and
    performance data.  This information can be used for
    growth/trend projections at both the system and
    organizational unit (e.g., division or department)
    levels.

 o  Performance Management - The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer
    allows you to examine and analyze specific VMS workloads
    so you can optimize your hardware and software resources.
    This information can be used for monitoring system
    behavior on a routine basis, investigating user reports
    of degraded performance, performing system tuning, and
    assessing the affect of changes in system software and
    hardware configurations.

 o  Service Level Management - The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer
    allows the user to use the data from VMS MONITOR and VMS
    ACCOUNTING to create and maintain Service Level
    Agreements (SLAs).  Creating SLAs and reporting on the
    success of IS in meeting them requires that application
    data be in an easily accessible format.  The CA MICS
    VAX/VMS Analyzer accomplishes this by combining data into
    user-specified groups (e.g., accounts payable) to provide
    consolidated reporting on SLA achievement.  The CA MICS
    VAX/VMS Analyzer also allows you to monitor system
    downtime for reliability and for reporting availability.

 o  Management and Analytical Reporting - The CA MICS VAX/VMS
    Analyzer allows users to group and summarize information
    directly from the CA MICS database to create useful ad
    hoc management and analytical reports.  CA MICS
    facilities allow resummarization when the data in the CA
    MICS database does not address specific reporting needs.

 o  Accounting and Chargeback - The CA MICS VAX/VMS Analyzer
    resource usage files contain data in a form that can be
    used for billing VMS system use.  This data includes CPU
    time, I/O counts, disk space usage and other resource
    usage information.  A standard interface to CA MICS
    Accounting and Chargeback permits accounting for VMS
    usage.