3. REPORTS › 3.1 Postprocessor Reports

3.1 Postprocessor Reports

The postprocessor reports are used to provide information
about hardware and system software in a format similar to the
output of the IBM RMF Postprocessor Program.  The purpose of
these reports is to provide RMF data in a format already
familiar to analysts, but to do so from the CA MICS database
rather than from raw SMF records, and to provide
summarization capabilities not present in the IBM product.

Since the format and contents of a given report frequently
vary with different operating system releases and CPU models,
the CA MICS Hardware and SCP Analyzer reporting software
detects these variables for each SYSID in the unit database,
and formats the reports accordingly.  Thus, reports for
multiple SYSIDs with different characteristics are correctly
produced in a single report run.

The following sections describe the reports and their
operation.

     1 - Report Descriptions
     2 - Running the Postprocessor Reports