Glossary

Glossary

administered groups

Administered groups are managed by users who lack full administrative rights. These users can manage a specific branch of the Groups tree to which the administrator has granted them access. Such access requires a user account setting and the Administer Groups role right.

Context pages

Context pages provide specific, focused performance or status data from a narrow context, such as a single router or server. These pages are available as drill-down links or tabs from Summary dashboards.

dashboards

Dashboards are dynamic 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.

data source synchronization

Data source synchronization occurs when a data source is first registered to CA Performance Center. It involves a full database replication. CA Performance Center receives information about all managed items in that data source. This type of synchronization does not recur automatically on an ongoing basis, but you can manually initiate it if necessary.

data sources

Data sources are the supported products that provide performance and configuration data to CA Performance Center. Data source products that monitor, collect, and aggregate data can often function independently. However, once they are registered to an instance of CA Performance Center, they are known as data sources.

domain

IP domains are logical groupings that identify data from different devices and networks. Monitoring by domain means that IP addresses with associated interfaces or applications that belong to separate customer networks are monitored separately. When combined with appropriate permissions, IP domains are monitored from a single console, but users view data only for the domains that they monitor.

drill down

To drill down means to navigate from one data view or dashboard in CA Performance Center to another, more detailed data view or context page. The new page displays data from the same timeframe, for the same managed item or set of items.

Dynamic Views

Dynamic views are customizable views that let you combine data from multiple managed items, or from multiple groups of items, in a single view. You can compare the data from hundreds of managed items or groups of managed items in a single chart or in multiple charts. View settings let you select display units and determine how data is plotted.

global administrator

The global administrator administers product settings for all tenants. This user account, also called the "Default Tenant administrator" because of its association with the Default Tenant, creates tenants and performs tenant configuration.

global synchronization

Global synchronization refers to the automatic reception, processing, and application of information from the data sources. Synchronization occurs every 5 minutes and includes configuration and performance data from all registered data sources.

group

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.

managed item

Managed items are devices, interfaces, servers, and components that all data sources discover and monitor. Data from managed items is synchronized from the data sources and is displayed in CA Performance Center dashboards.

menus

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.

metric family

The metric family defines the set of values to collect and report for a given technology. The metric family selected for a view determines the values to retrieve from the database and display in that view. For a CA Infrastructure Management Data Aggregator, it determines the values to collect for devices that are associated with a monitoring profile.

MPLS

MPLS is a routing protocol designed to enhance network speed and reliability in an IP environment. MPLS edge routers place labels on packets to specify routes and packet priority. Once these routers assign the paths, less processing is required to route packets, and paths are more predictable.

Multitrend Views

Multitrend views are customizable views that let you combine trend data from multiple interfaces in a single line trend chart. You can compare the data from up to 12 interfaces in a single multitrend view.

Multiviews

Multiviews are customizable views that let you combine statistics from multiple interfaces in a single view. You can compare the data from up to 48 interfaces in a single multiview.

My Dashboards menu

The My Dashboards menu is a dashboard container that can be personalized for each operator who has a user account in CA Performance Center. Any dashboard that you customize—by moving items to different positions in the layout, for example—appears in your My Dashboards menu. Such modifications are not available to other users.

permission groups

Permission groups comprise the scope of the managed items that each user can monitor. Administrators can create custom groups of managed items, such as applications, servers, networks, routers, and interfaces, to reflect each user’s area of responsibility. When they are assigned to a user account as permissions, custom groups are called permission groups.

pingable device

A pingable device refers to a device that does not allow SNMP polling and is therefore contacted using ICMP ping tests for status and reachability statistics.

product privilege

The product privilege is a type of permission set associated with a user account. The product privilege grants user access to features in selected data sources and does not apply to CA Performance Center functionality.

projection

A projection plots the trend in future values for a selected metric, extrapolating from the metric data that is requested in the view. Projections are displayed as broken trend lines to indicate that they are based on estimated values.

reports

Reports are static output from an on-demand selection or an exported dashboard page. Reports that you export from a dashboard create a static data set from the data and information in the associated dashboard. On-demand reports capture a data set from a single managed item or group in the Inventory. You can print reports, send them by email, or export them in CSV or PDF format. For each format, the report captures a selected data set.