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Data Source Support for Multi-Tenancy

Support for multi-tenant monitoring in CA Performance Center is subject to some limitations in the registered data sources. Where a Data Aggregator data source has fully implemented multi-tenancy and IP domain monitoring, the following data sources offer more limited support:

The following table summarizes data source support for multi-tenant deployment features:

Data Source

Features Supported

Notes

Data Aggregator

All:

  • IP Domains
  • Default Tenant configuration (such as tenant groups and SNMP profiles)
  • Default Tenant ownership of managed items
  • Custom Tenant configuration and ownership of managed items

Full support for all multi-tenancy features.

CA Network Flow Analysis

All.

Assign a tenant and IP domain to each Harvester and router. Tenant assignment determines the configuration items that are available (such as tenant SNMP profiles).

A few limitations are noted in Other Deployment Considerations.

CA Application Delivery Analysis
  • IP Domains
  • Custom Tenant configuration

Does not segregate data within the data source interface.

CA Spectrum

All. However, tenancy is only visible in the CA Performance Center interface, not in OneClick.

OneClick receives IP domains from CA Performance Center. Models in IP domains are synchronized them with CA Performance Center (and thus, associated with custom tenants).

CA Unified Communications Monitor

All.

Locations are automatically associated with IP domains by their subnets.

CA eHealth; CA Application Performance Management

None.

All items from these data sources are associated with the Default Tenant and Default IP Domain. Add items from these data sources to Service Provider groups to grant tenant access to them.

Notes:

CA Application Delivery Analysis monitors IP domains without a concept of tenants. As a result, CA Performance Center receives all items from CA Application Delivery Analysis in the Default Tenant. However, CA Application Delivery Analysis does support IP domains. CA Performance Center can thus associate these items with tenants according to their IP domain. Be aware that some managed items are duplicated between the Default Tenant and custom tenants.

Starting with r9.3, CA Spectrum supports custom IP domains. CA Spectrum devices can be placed in custom IP domains or in the Default IP Domain. Tenants are not visible in CA Spectrum OneClick. However, tenants in CA Performance Center have associated CA Spectrum devices based on IP domain. The global administrator can also make these items available for monitoring by tenant users by placing them into the Service Provider Items group. For more information, see the CA Spectrum-CA Performance Center Integration Guide.