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ReportCenter Data Types

The following types of long term summary data are handled by ReportCenter:

• TCP/IP data
• File Transfer data

Long Term Data

ReportCenter is a long term, historical and trend reporting tool. It receives and reports on time series data that is concerned with matters like the following:

• How many times a thing happened in a certain hour, day, or month?
• What was the total number of things in that time interval?
• What was the average number of things in that time interval?

Numeric and enumerated data is stored.

Summary Data

ReportCenter has no knowledge of the individual events that make up the total values. ReportCenter knows what your average response time was yesterday and how many bytes you transferred yesterday. It does not know what your response time was at 13:05 yesterday or that those bytes came from a transfer you did at 09:00.

TCP/IP Data

CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP does not produce data specifically for ReportCenter. ReportCenter uses the same performance history data that is collected by the IP Resource Monitor and the IP Node Monitor.

Without ReportCenter, this data can be viewed in a limited manner on the CA NetMaster region that collects it. When ReportCenter is implemented, the data can be retained for longer periods, be amalgamated from different systems and sysplexes, and be presented in a wide variety of web-based graphical reports.

ReportCenter receives only the aggregated hourly summaries of monitored attributes. It does not receive individual samples and events. ReportCenter deals with rates and total values, not individual details.

File Transfer Data

CA NetMaster FTM aggregates the file transfer events into hourly summaries for ReportCenter.