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Custom Certification Scenarios

Out of the box, CA Performance Management supports the common vendors, metrics, and components in your network infrastructure. The Technology Certification Portal lists out-of-the-box certifications by Data Aggregator version, vendor certification, and metric families:

http://serviceassurance.ca.com/im/

However, you can maximize your infrastructure management power by creating custom CA Performance Management certifications. Customize when you need CA Performance Management support for:

• A new technology:
  • Define a new component.
  • Create a custom metric family.
• A new metric for an existing technology:
  • Create a custom metric family from a predefined (factory) metric family.
  • Define a custom vendor certification for a custom metric family.
• A new vendor:
  • Create a custom vendor certification for a factory metric family.
  • Create a custom vendor certification for a custom metric family.