Athene Server
Athene is architected to be scalable from one to tens of thousands of servers. To obtain detailed hardware and software sizing advice for maximum performance in any given installation please apply to your Account manager at:
sales@metron-athene.com
Athene now uses Microsoft SQL Server as the database technology for the Athene Performance Database (PDB).

Communications Environment
For collecting data from Windows, UNIX or Linux systems Athene supports FTP, SSH (with which we use Secure FTP) or any protocol that works through the Windows redirector, e.g. NFS, SMB etc. Any communication protocols, which support file transfer, are suitable for delivery of z/OS data.

Acquire Host Software
On UNIX and Linux systems Metron provides pre-compiled binaries for the Acquire data capture agent.