1. CA MICS ANALYZER FOR MEASUREWARE › 1.1 Primary Areas of Application

1.1 Primary Areas of Application

The CA MICS Analyzer for MeasureWare (MW OS Agent Analyzer)
provides data and reporting capabilities that aid in managing
your UNIX environment in the following areas:

 o  Capacity Planning - The MW OS Agent Analyzer maintains a
    database of historical MeasureWare usage and performance
    data.  This information can be used for growth and trend
    projections at both the system and organizational unit
    (such as division or department) levels.

 o  Performance Management - The MW OS Agent Analyzer enables
    you to examine and analyze specific workloads so you can
    optimize your 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 effects of
    changing system software and hardware configurations.

 o  Accounting and Chargeback - A standard interface to
    CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback enables you to use the
    Analyzer's UNIX Application Performance and UNIX Process
    Activity files to bill for UNIX system use.  This data
    includes CPU time, I/O counts, and other resource usage
    information.

 o  Service Level Management - The MW OS Agent Analyzer
    enables you to use its data 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 Analyzer accomplishes this by combining data into
    user-specified groups (such as accounts payable) to
    provide consolidated reporting on SLA achievement.

 o  Management and Analytical Reporting - The MW OS Agent
    Analyzer enables you 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.