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View Infrastructure Management Object Performance Data in the Time Series Facility

The Time Series Facility (TSF) stores data that is collected and provided by CA products. TSF provides a single point for collection, storage, management, and organization of the product data. When you request a Time Series chart from the Investigator, TSF provides the data content for the chart.

The TSF displays historical performance statistics. When you add a Infrastructure Management discipline object to TSF, it becomes an entity. You can use it to create a chart. Doing so lets you determine trends and identify valid anomalies. The TSF charts allow up to four lines.

An entity is an application performance object that has been added to TSF. You can add the system entity to TSF with the CA Chorus Infrastructure Management discipline.

Note: For detailed common TSF concepts and procedures, see the CA Chorus Product Guide.

Example: Analyze the active address spaces metrics for all entities.

In this example, the Infrastructure Management Group object is added to the TSF and the active address spaces per group are analyzed.

Monitoring CPU consumption for an address space lets you compare the address space statistics for the desired time ranges. Use the results to identify storage threshold problems.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to CA Chorus.
2. Add the Investigator module to your dashboard from the Module Library, and click Start New Investigation.

   The Investigator opens.

3. Select Infrastructure Management from the discipline drop-down list.

   The Infrastructure Management object tree opens.

4. Expand the Statistics category.

   A list of the performance objects that you have set up to generate TSF metrics are displayed.

5. Select the record in the table.
6. Click Add Entity to Time Series in the Actions pane on the right-hand side.

   The system is added to the TSF and the TSF panel appears.

7. Select the Entity and the Metrics, ASIACT for active address spaces, and click Perform Charting.

   TSF produces a chart for the selected metric. The selected entity becomes a line on the chart.

8. Select an entity from the Contributors drop-down list and click Contributors.

   The Entities panel becomes the Base Entities panel and shows the original criteria that the Investigator passes for the selected entity.

9. Click the Contributors drop-down list.

   The drop-down list shows the valid contributors.

   Note: To exit the contributors function, click Back to Entities.

10. Select a contributor type.

    A list of all the contributors for the selected entity and metric combination appears. If no contributors appear, then clear one or more base entities.

    Note: All Performance metrics are defined as averages. When multiple values are rolled up for a time period or across multiple entities, the average value is represented on the Time Series charts.

11. Click Perform Charting.

    The new chart is generated from the selected entities.

12. Duplicate the chart by clicking the plus icon next to the Contributors drop-down list.

    The second chart displays below the original chart.

13. Set your desired date and time ranges for the second chart.

    The timeline bar works independently between the top and bottom graph. Changing the time in these charts lets you compare the statistics for the desired time ranges.