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Sybase Support

CA SRM assembles and presents the information to manage your database storage more efficiently. CA SRM collects a variety of data to assist you in such tasks as tuning your system, setting alerts, planning capacity, reporting on raw devices, and so on. You can display unified views of data collected from multiple database instances running on different platforms. CA SRM logs on to all the databases automatically at scheduled times.

You can use CA SRM to perform the following tasks:

• Present complete logical volume information by combining data reported by Sybase with raw device data collected by the CA SRM Agent
• Monitor size, free space, and occupied space information for database instances, tablespaces, and data files
• Analyze trends for database instances, devices, tables, segments, and redo logs
• Set alerts when certain conditions are met

CA SRM collects and stores information from Sybase computers as CA SRM objects. You can filter, sort, and query these objects, represent them graphically, and customize the presentation in other ways.

Note: To minimize the impact of data collection on system performance, limit the scope of information you want to collect and specify the computers from which you want this information collected.

In order collect data from a Sybase 15 server, the CA SRM managed server must have the Sybase 15 ODBC driver installed. Sybase 15 ODBC drivers are backward compatible with older driver versions. You can still collect data from older database versions like 12.5 or 11.9.2 using the Sybase 15 ODBC drivers.