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Data Collection

CA Performance Center relies on data sources for performance data, device identification, and device, server, and system status. Supported data sources collect various types of data: end-to-end application response times, packets, network traffic flows, and infrastructure statistics from device MIBs. Minimizing management overhead, CA Performance Center uses embedded network instrumentation and passive collection appliances running in the data center. Remote probes and agents are not used. Instead, data sources such as SNMP and NetFlow provide data from widely varying architectures.

CA Performance Center displays data from multiple sources that gather, store, aggregate, and analyze performance data from physical and virtual systems. It also lets you directly access the products that provide the data without requiring reauthentication.

To transform the wealth of data and analytics into actionable information, CA Performance Center provides a single reporting interface. Dashboards and alerts can be tailored to the needs of network engineers, Operations staff, server and application teams, and IT executives. You can build customized views in many formats.