Product Overview

The Sightline Capacity Power Agent (CPA) is an advanced Sightline data consolidator and capacity database manager based in the ClearPath MCP Environment. It automatically manages a repository of historical performance data for the Unisys host, for the companion Windows system, and for external ClearPath MCP, Windows, UNIX, OS 2200 and other platforms. The CPA database resides on the ClearPath MCP host and is populated with interval data (30 or 60 second samples of performance data) from the MCP and all Interface Agents as it is collected. Transparent to the user, the collected data is automatically rationalized to 15-minute, hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly summaries as well as into user-definable custom shifts for long-term storage, retrieval and analysis. Management of this performance and capacity database is automatic with data aged out of CPA based on retention specified by the user.

If both Sightline PPA and CPA are resident on the same platform, then both the MCP performance data collection and the Interface Agent data collection are integrated and shared between the two Power Agents to improve efficiency and reduce collection overhead.

Sightline CPA is seamlessly integrated with Sightline EDM and EA/V for alerting, analyzing, and reporting but it also comes with a fully-functional, host-based reporting mechanism. A parameter-driven utility on the host allows the user to format and schedule printing of host-based tabular reports and to export data to other analysis facilities like Microsoft Excel and the Sightline ForSight capacity planning feature.

Configuration Requirements

Sightline CPA operates on any ClearPath MCP system.

Ordering Information

Source code is not available for this product.

Product Information

Product information is available on the Sightline Systems download page, located at the following URL:

http://supportweb.sightlinesystems.com