1. CA MICS ANALYZER FOR MEASUREWARE


As the number of management information systems installations
using UNIX systems continues to grow, the need to
systematically plan, control, and evaluate the environment is
becoming increasingly important.

CA has responded to this need by developing the CA MICS
Analyzer for MeasureWare (referred to as MW OS Agent
Analyzer), a data integration application that is part of the
CA MICS product suite.  Like other data integration
applications, the MW OS Agent Analyzer processes raw data for
analyzing and managing specific technologies.

The MW OS Agent Analyzer uses data from Hewlett-Packard's
MeasureWare (renamed by HP to OpenView) Agent's logglob,
logappl, logproc, logdev, and logtran files to populate the
CA MICS database's UNIX information area (AUM).  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 MW OS Agent Analyzer data with any other CA MICS
management support applications such as financial 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 MW OS Agent Analyzer provides color graphics reports,
using MICF, that enable you to combine data from multiple
UNIX systems and to report on global system performance and
workload, process activity, interesting processes, disks, and
the profile of your system and its configuration.

This section contains the following topics:

1.1 Primary Areas of Application

1.2 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

1.3 Files Overview

1.4 Product Prerequisites