1. OVERVIEW › 1.6 Benefits
1.6 Benefits
CA MICS Network Analyzer contributes to the overall benefits
that CA MICS provides. Those benefits fall into the
following broad categories:
o Improves day-to-day management
o Reduces risk to the enterprise
o Controls and/or helps reduce costs
o Improves return on the I/S investment
o Increases productivity
o Improves planning
The material below explains how the CA MICS Network Analyzer
contributes to these benefits.
Improves Day-to-day I/S Management
o Tracks problem symptoms and supplies information so that
you can take corrective action
o Highlights recurring, persistent performance and response
issues that require further analysis, tuning, or planning
o Helps to identify reliability issues and trends to allow
you to focus on vendors or products that are providing
poor performance
Reduces Risk to the Enterprise
o Provides more accurate and complete information than is
available from any single network monitor application
o Ensures complete and non-redundant configuration data for
cross-domain sessions when NetView is active and producing
data in both domains
o Improves insight into problems that can affect important
users
o Provides the flexibility and open-ended architecture to
adapt to technological change
Controls and/or Helps Reduce Costs
o Permits you to charge back all resources
o Provides flexibility in chargeback
o Educates users about resource costs and usage patterns
Improves Return on the I/S Investment
o Provides you with the ability to equitably charge users
for resources
o Provides better information with which to justify
decisions, and to more effectively present positions and
proposals
Increases Productivity
o Incorporates data from multiple networks into the same
database, while retaining the ability to analyze each
network separately
o Standardizes reporting, thus reducing problem analysis
time
o Provides the potential to combine data from two or more
domains in different time zones, thus simplifying analysis
o Allows you to use resources more effectively and
efficiently
Improves Planning
o Helps you to identify and perform basic analysis on
utilization trends that point towards eventual saturation
of network components
o Supplies you with the means for evaluating hardware and
software prior to making a commitment for acquisition
