To use CA Performance Center effectively, familiarize yourself with the following terms and concepts:
Data sources are the supported products that provide performance and configuration data to CA Performance Center. Data source products, which perform monitoring, data collection, and data aggregation, can often function independently. However, once they are registered to an instance of CA Performance Center, they are called data sources.
Dashboards are report-building pages within the CA Performance Center user interface. They appear as menu items that are accessible from the Dashboards tab. Each dashboard is a collection of views that present data from registered data sources on a single web page. The layout, views, time interval, and group context of each dashboard can be customized.
Reports describe the output from an exported dashboard page. Reports contain the same data and information as the associated dashboards, but they are formatted to meet the requirements of the export destination. You can print reports, send them by email, or export them in PDF format.
Views, or data views, present statistical data, usually in a graph or table format. Each view represents a discrete set of collected data. Depending on your user account role rights, you can add and edit individual views or remove them from a dashboard page. In some cases, you can export the data to a file in CSV format.
Tabs are the prominent links across the top of the CA Performance Center interface that let you view dashboards and open administration tools. For example, the Dashboards tab lets you select a dashboard page to view from a menu.
Menus are segments of the Dashboards tab that are used to organize dashboards by their content. By default, Administrators and Designers can customize menus and assign them to user account roles.
CA Performance Center also provides factory (predefined) menus for particular types of roles, such as a manager or engineer.
The role is a parameter assigned to a user account that controls user access to product features and dashboard pages. Based on user job functions, the role grants administrative access to product configuration. In a well-planned deployment, roles let users access dashboards that they require to perform their duties and restrict access to features that they do not require. Roles can be defined differently in the data sources than in CA Performance Center. However, they are shared among data source products registered to the same CA Performance Center instance.
A group is a filter definition that functions as a container for managed items. Groups let you logically organize managed items in a tree structure, with each group containing subgroups or managed items. The structure is propagated to the data sources, where it enables drilldown from top-level groups into data from an increasingly narrow but related context.
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