Product Overview

The Sightline Interface Agents for ClearPath MCP systems provide data to Sightline EDM, EA/V and the Sightline Capacity Manager. Interface Agents collect performance metrics for various non-MCP components of the MCP Environment. The available Interface Agents are:

COMS Interface Agent

COMS response time is the most important measure of end-user performance and service delivery. The COMS Interface Agent provides transaction data for each COMS program, program group, user, transaction code (LINC ISPEC), window, and station as defined through the Sightline Install Utility.

Key metrics include:

You can use the statistics reported by the COMS Interface Agent to analyze performance problems for on-line transactions, for transaction growth projections, and for capacity planning.

Enterprise Database Server Database Interface Agent

Monitoring and managing the performance and resource demands of mission-critical databases is key to the successful and timely processing of most applications. The Enterprise Database Server Database Interface Agent supports variable monitoring of databases at three different levels: Global metrics only, comprehensive summary of global and all structures, and detail structure monitoring.

Key metrics include:

The Enterprise Database Server Database Interface Agent provides the data needed for capacity planning and for evaluating and tuning database performance.

Billing Account and Event Reporting Interface Agent

The Billing Account and Event Reporting Interface Agent intercepts SUMLOG data and reports resource statistics for “billing accounts,” which can include every job, task, and MCS session run on the Unisys MCP system. The billing account categories can then be used as a basis for a charge-back system. This data also provides a summary view of resource consumption by billing account or workload, and supplements the information provided by workloads for capacity planning purposes.

This Interface Agent also tracks key events that occur on your system. This can be used to monitor the availability of the system, the availability of key application services, or any data center or user defined event. The Interface Agent automatically captures system and application outage events. Event records can also be created manually, and any event record can be updated using the Sightline Capacity Power Agent (CPA) utility.

The Event Reporting capability is designed to support improved Data Center management by providing automatic and manual tracking of system events including: halt/loads, memory dumps, and job, task, and session terminations, as well as user-defined custom events like application service interruptions on the ClearPath MCP system. Events are automatically downloaded to the EA/V workstation or Sightline EDM for viewing in the EventList display. Sightline CPA can also be used to create tabular reports of existing events. The Event Reporting capability requires both the Sightline CPA, which stores the event records, and the Billing Account and Event Reporting Interface Agent that monitors the MCP complex for system and user events.

TCP/IP Interface Agent

The TCP/IP Interface Agent provides access to TCP/IP network statistics on the ClearPath MCP host and for the network interfaces. This set of TCP-specific metrics permits monitoring the host system and network connection activity levels and can be used for capacity planning of the system’s network connections. When coupled with the Sightline CPA, long-term network traffic trends can be analyzed.

BNAv2 Interface Agent

This Interface Agent collects BNAv2 network traffic and usage information. Statistics at the Line and Station level are also available for detailed analysis. BNA statistics are useful in isolating overloaded lines and network connections, traffic trend analysis and network capacity planning. The BNAv2 Interface Agent also provides information on the most active BNA Connection Groups via EA/V’s TopList feature.

Disk Accounting Interface Agent

This Interface Agent can automatically monitor disk space usage by user and by application. The data is organized in “disk accounts,” which are categorized by usercode, disk pack family name, file size and other key parameters. You can use this data to proactively plan disk space resources and usage chargeback. You can also pair the Disk Accounting Interface Agent with Sightline CPA to easily perform long-term trend analysis and projection on individual and groups of disk accounts.

Communication Applications Platform (CAP) Interface Agent

This Interface Agent can monitor and manage the performance of the VoiceSource and CAP telephony applications and provides real-time and historical access to a wide variety of important CAP and CAP Application performance metrics including:

CAP applications are automatically discovered and can be automatically monitored.

Key CAP metrics include:

The CAP Interface Agent displays up to 15 of the busiest CAP network applications in the Sightline EA/V TopList display, and provides the following details for each application:

You can use the data provided by the CAP Interface Agent to monitor call statistics, manage the performance of CAP applications, and for capacity planning for both the host platform and the telephony interface facilities.

Universal Capacity Data (UCD) Interface Agent

The Sightline Universal Capacity Data (UCD) Interface Agent enables ClearPath MCP, Windows, and UNIX systems, or any system running a Sightline Power Agent, to send real time performance and capacity data to the Sightline CPA. The CPA automatically stores, consolidates and manages the information in a Capacity Management Database (CMDB) on a single ClearPath MCP system. A UCD Interface Agent license is required for each system that is managed by the CPA. The UCD Interface Agent only supports CPA.

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Product Information

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