1. OVERVIEW › 1.3 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

1.3 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

 
 The Hardware and SCP Analyzer's reports and inquiries provide
 concise, comprehensive information to help you manage your
 hardware configuration.  They provide a reporting base to
 which you can add your own reports.  Several types of reports
 are provided:  Postprocessor, MICF Inquiries, Management
 Objective, and Exception.  In addition, the standard SAS
 language interface makes generalized inquiry and analysis
 readily available.
 
 The Hardware and SCP Analyzer provides the following reports,
 which are briefly described here and discussed in greater
 detail in Chapters 3 and 4 of this guide:
 
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 Report          Report
 Category        Name
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 Post            Cache Subsystem Activity Detail Report
 Processor       Cache Subsystem Activity Summary Report
                 Channel Path Activity Report
                 Coupling Facility Report
                 CPU Activity Report
                 Crypto Hardware Activity Report
                 Device Activity Report
                 Enqueue Activity Report
                 Enterprise Disk Systems Report
                 FICON Director Activity Report
                 I/O Queuing Activity Report
                 Page Data Set Activity Report     
                 Paging Activity Report
                 RMF Summary Report
                 Serialization Delay Report   
                 Shared Device Activity Report
                 Storage Group Device Report
                 USS Kernel Activity Report
                 Virtual Storage Summary Report
                 Virtual Storage Detail Report
                 Workload Manager Goal Mode Report
                 XCF Activity Report
 
 MICF            Daily Logical Control Unit Activity
 Inquiries       DASD Response Time Components
                 Daily Channel Utilization Analysis
                 Daily System, Demand and Swap Paging
                 Weekly Track of JES Real Memory Use
                 Sysplex Aggregation Compliance Report
 
                 (plus all Post Processor reports)
 
 Management      Top Service Classes Service Units Consumers
 Objective         Report
                 Detail Service Unit Consumption Report
                 Resource Consumption Report
 
 Exception       Hardware Exception Value Analysis Report
                 SCP Exception Value Analysis Report
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 POSTPROCESSOR REPORTS
 
 Postprocessor reports provide reports equivalent to those
 produced by the IBM RMF postprocessor.
 
 
 MICF INQUIRIES
 
 The CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF) is a
 panel-oriented productivity tool that gives you access to
 information in the CA MICS database.  When you define input,
 selection criteria, and report options, MICF dynamically
 builds an inquiry program to fulfill your request.  The
 inquiry program is executed either in batch mode or
 interactive mode.  The results of the request are displayed
 at the terminal, and either printed or cataloged for later
 replay according to your specifications.
 
 The Hardware and SCP Analyzer includes standard MICF
 inquiries that are immediately useful.  You can either use
 these inquiries directly from the MICF shared inquiry catalog
 or copy inquiries to your private inquiry catalog and tailor
 them to your specific needs.
 
 
 MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE REPORTS
 
 Management Objective reports summarize the activities of the
 IT organization.  These reports provide status information,
 trend information, or a comparison of planned and actual
 results.  The management control reports that accompany this
 product can help you track system performance and service,
 and plan for future resource requirements.
 
 The Management Objective reports provide a concise, graphical
 or tabular representation of the data center's processing
 objectives and how well they have been met.  You define the
 objectives for the reports through a series of parameters.
 The reports are produced during normal CA MICS processing on
 a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.  These reports can be
 activated or deactivated for a timespan (DAILY, WEEKLY, or
 MONTHLY).
 
 
 EXCEPTION REPORTS
 
 The CA MICS exception process provides management and
 technical personnel with a means to identify deviations from
 data center objectives that require the attention of the
 technical staff.  CA MICS operational exception reports
 organize and report problems in terms of their severity and
 user-defined thresholds.  The operational exceptions also
 associate the problems with their respective management
 areas.
 
 The Hardware and SCP Analyzer defines numerous exceptions
 that are used by the CA MICS exception process.