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Base Entities and Contributors

An understanding of base entities and contributors is useful before you begin analyzing data. To understand this relationship, visualize these terms in a parent (base entity) and child (contributor) relationship. Parents in a family are a base entity and each child is a contributor to the family. Depending upon the metric, each child could contribute differently. Some children do not have contributors. Parents are also children (contributors) in an extended family.

When you view a performance metric for a base entity in TSF, you see the total view, for example, total CPU. When you plot contributors for a base entity, you see the contributors that are part of the total view, for example, each component contributing to the total CPU. You can add or remove contributors to isolate performance areas. Additionally, you can use TSF to change a contributor into a base entity.

Example:

For CA Chorus for Security and Compliance Management, a system could be a base entity with each Command Propagation Facility (CPF) node as a contributor.