Since 1989, MGS, Inc has partnered with Sightline Systems to provide Sightline (formally ViewPoint) performance and capacity products in the ClearPath MCP market. The current product line, sold by MGS, includes:
Sightline Expert Advisor/Vision (EA/V) analysis PC software Create plots, charts and tables of host performance metrics
Easy to use GUI, runs under Windows
Standard analysis environments provided
Alert notification
Comprehensive dictionary describing all reported metrics
Integrated WEB based reporting
Sightline ClearPath MCP Performance Power Agent (SPA) Realtime monitoring of all aspects of basic MCP operation
Processor
Memory
Peripheral (unit, subsystem, family, IOP)
WFL Job Queues
Workload statistics
Site application-specific statistics
Estimated CPU capacity usage for non-metering machines
Sightline ClearPath MCP Interface Agents (IAs) Realtime monitoring of advanced areas of MCP operation
COMS program and TTRail analysis
DMSII Database and Audit trail analysis
BNAv2 monitoring
Disk Space Accounting
Job/Task Accounting, Program events
TCP/IP LAN Monitoring
CAP/NAP (VNMS) Monitoring
CoD/Metering
Sightline Capacity Manager (SCM) Host-based capacity database derived from the SPA data
Auto-summarization by 15 minute, hour, custom shift,
day, week and month
Keeps decades of capacity history on-line for immediate use
Single host database or multi-host capacity repository
SCM Online -
Acquires capacity data from all Sightline power, interface
and summary agents and stores it in the SCM Database
Analyze data with EA/V workstation software or with
host-based reports
Sightline Workload Analyzer (SWA) Host-based task history database with reporting
Monitors what was run and when
Tracks resource utilization for each individual program run
Shows what was in the mix (and its resource usage) at
any point in time
Other Sightline Power/Interface Agents Unisys ClearPath 2200
Windows/Intel Servers
UNIX (multiple platforms)
DEC VMS
IBM MVS
EMC disk subsystems
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle (multiple platforms)