1. Introduction

The Planning, Installation, Operation, and Maintenance Guide
(PIOM) is the system administrator's primary source of
information for questions about installing and operating CA
MICS Resource Management.  The following guides are also
information sources for the system administrator:
 
o  How to Use the PSP explains the tools and the methodology
   to use when applying product changes to your CA MICS
   system.
 
o  The System Modification Guide (SMG) contains a detailed
   description of the maintenance policies for CA MICS, which
   are designed to support an environment where user
   modifications are common.  You should refer to this
   material before making any modifications.
 
o  The System Administrator Guide (SAG) provides detailed
   information on support services, incident logging, user
   modifications, and system requirements.
 
o  The MICF Reference Guide has a chapter on MICF
   administration.
 
The remaining chapters of the PIOM cover the following
topics:
 
    Chapter 2, Planning for Installation and Use of CA MICS,
    tells you how to tailor the CA MICS system to your data
    center's particular needs.  The discussion focuses on
    creating the members of the MICS.PARMS library that guide
    the CA MICS installation and generation processes.
 
    Chapter 3, Installation, shows the system administrator
    how to use the members created in MICS.PARMS to install
    and generate the CA MICS database.  This chapter uses
    checklists to guide you through installing and generating
    the database.
 
    Chapter 4, Operation, discusses how to run the CA MICS
    system on a day-to-day basis and highlights the
    mechanisms built into the system to ensure database
    integrity and recoverability.
 
    Chapter 5, Maintenance, describes the different
    categories of CA MICS maintenance available to you.  It
    also explains the activities involved in maintaining CA
    MICS and tells you how to perform them.
 
    Appendix A, Special CA MICS Processing, documents
    facilities that allow you to create special-purpose
    databases containing data for all of the timespans based
    on raw measurement data.  These facilities help you
    perform special studies and help you create MONTHS-level
    data from data collected before CA MICS was installed.
 
If you have questions about the installation, operation, or
maintenance of the system that are not answered in the
documentation, contact CA Technical Support at
http://ca.com/support.
 
The other guides in the CA MICS documentation set are:

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* GUIDES FOR THE END-USER *
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CA MICS Database Structure and Content Guide
CA MICS Document Access Guide
CA MICS MICF Reference Guide
CA MICS MICF User Guide

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* GUIDES FOR THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR *
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CA MICS How to Use the PSP
CA MICS Planning, Installation, Operation, and Maintenance
   Guide (PIOM)
CA MICS Standard Reports Guide
CA MICS System Administrator Guide
CA MICS System Modification Guide

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* PRODUCT GUIDES *
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CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback Option Concepts and
   Overview Guide
CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback Option User Guide
CA MICS Analyzer for TSO Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for CA IDMS Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for CICS Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for DB2 Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for IMS Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for MeasureWare Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for MQSeries Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for VAX/VMS Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for VM/CMS Guide
CA MICS Analyzer Option for VSE/Power Guide
CA MICS Batch and Operations Analyzer Guide
CA MICS CA ASTEX Option Guide
CA MICS Capacity Planner Option Guide
CA MICS Data Transfer Option for VM/CMS Guide
CA MICS Hardware and SCP Analyzer Guide
CA MICS IMS Log Data Extractor Option Guide
CA MICS Network Analyzer Option Guide
CA MICS Performance Manager Option Guide
CA MICS Space Analyzer Option Guide
CA MICS Space Collector Option Guide
CA MICS StorageMate Option Guide
CA MICS System Reliability Analyzer Option Guide
CA MICS Tandem Option Guide
CA MICS Tape Analyzer Option Guide
CA MICS Web Analyzer Option Guide