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Display an Entity in a Time Series Facility Chart

Performance objects added to the Time Series Facility (TSF) appear in the TSF as entities. An entity is a virtual object that holds one or more performance metrics that can be charted on a graph. These metrics are sent from a registered CA product and then collected and stored in TSF. The entity can be any object type that the CA product supports. The CA product generates the metrics and the discipline for view access to its metrics.

You can use the TSF to chart the performance information within a specific time frame. These charts help you see performance issues, identify trends, and compare current and historical data.

Follow these steps:

1. Launch the Investigator.
2. Navigate the Investigator tree to the applicable performance folder, which varies by discipline.

   Example:

   The DBA discipline has TSF entities under Plans and Packages.

   The Security and Storage disciplines have TSF entities under Statistics.

   The Infrastructure Management discipline has TSF entities under:

   • CICS, IMS, WebSphere MQ and z/OS Statistics (CA SYSVIEW)
   • IP Stacks, Network Interfaces, Network Summary (<nmwip>)

   A list of available performance objects appears.

3. Select or highlight the required object in the table, and click Add Entity to Time Series.

   The Investigator switches to the TSF view, and the entity is added to the TSF.

   Note: You can add as many entities as required to the TSF. Use the Table View icon in the toolbar to switch your view.

4. Select an entity from the Chart Tools section.

   The list of metrics for the selected entity appears.

   Note: Different entities can have different metrics. The metrics that are presented are from the entity that is bold. If you expect to see a metric, but it is not presented in the metric list, click the entity to make it bold. A new metric list for that entity appears.

5. Select the applicable metric.
6. (Optional) Repeat Steps 2 through 6 to select more entities and metrics. You can select up to four entities and up to four metrics with each entity.

   The entity and metrics are highlighted.

7. Click Perform Charting.

   TSF produces a chart for each selected metric. Each entity becomes a line on the chart. The end time on the chart is the last collected data point. To change the section of the chart that appears, use the slider control.

   Note: If no data points exist for the selected metrics, click Latest Recorded to see the most recent recorded data. For more information about the TSF charts, see the Troubleshooting Guide.

8. (Optional) Specify the period for the chart using one of the available methods in the upper-left corner.

   Note: If you change the charting period using one of these methods, the amount of data that is being aggregated changes. Therefore, the values for the Y axis of the chart change to reflect the increase or decrease in the aggregate data.

   1. Select a ZOOM option.
   2. Use the slider control to see data for the remaining data in the chart.
   3. Specify the start date, start time, end date, and end time for the chart using the time-based drop-downs.