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Access to Metadata

As well as providing access to performance data, each Performance Distribution Server also provides access to metadata-information about the performance data itself. Examples of this metadata include lists of:

• System types
• All the machines known to the entire PDG
• Machines filtered by system type
• Resources monitored on a particular machine

Using facilities such as Performance Reporting, you can submit a request for this metadata. The Performance Distribution Server that receives the request examines its local cube store and then either returns the required metadata or forwards the request to a Distribution Server that is better able to handle the query.