Creating a Custom Vendor Certification › Verify the Custom Vendor Certification Results

Verify the Custom Vendor Certification Results

After you have imported your custom vendor certification XML, verify the results. In our example, we verify that the rPVCInfoCustom custom vendor certification has been imported successfully.

Follow these steps:

1. Enter the following URL in your REST client:

   http://da_hostname:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/name
   

   name

   Is the name of your custom vendor certification. In this example, it is frPVCInfoCustom.

   A page displays the custom frPVCInfoCustom vendor certification XML.

2. Enter the following URL in the REST client:

   http://da-hostname:8581/rest/vendorpriorities
   

3. Search for your vendor certification in the XML document that is displayed.
4. Verify that the MetricFamilyVendorPriority XML lists both your custom vendor certification and metric family.

You are now ready to verify your custom vendor certification using the Data Aggregator user interface.

Follow these steps:

1. Verify that your custom vendor certification is available in Data Aggregator:
   1. Click Vendor Certifications on the Monitoring Configuration menu for a Data Aggregator data source.

      Verify that your custom vendor certification is listed (or search for your vendor certification).

   2. Select your custom vendor certification from the list of vendor certifications.

      Verify that your custom metric family is shown in the Metric Families view.

   3. Click your metric family in the Metric Families view.
   4. Click the Vendor Certification Priorities tab.

      Verify that your custom vendor certification is associated with the All Manageable Devices device collection.

2. Configure monitoring profiles and device collections for the metric family that your custom vendor certification supports:
   1. Verify that a discovery creates the expected and appropriate items.
   2. Verify that the items poll and collect the metric data you specified in your metric family XML.
   3. Verify that the collected data is correct.
   4. Verify that the item data synchronizes correctly with CA Performance Center, if the item synchronization is configured.
   5. Run a discovery again and verify that the information updates correctly.