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Verify Your Custom Metric Family Results in a Test Environment

After you complete your custom metric family XML and import it into a test environment, verify your results. Verification is an important process to help ensure that your custom metric family produces the correct results in your production environment.

Important! Always create and verify your custom metric family in a test environment first. Creating a custom metric family requires you to edit the metric family XML file manually. Semantic errors in this XML file can cause unpredictable results.

Follow these steps:

1. Create a vendor certification on your test system using your custom metric family. Verify the following results as you create the vendor certification:
   1. The custom metric family XML file appears in the vendor certification wizard.
   2. The correct metric family attributes are visible when you select your custom metric family.
2. Verify that your vendor certification creates appropriate items during a discovery.
3. Verify that the items poll and collect the metric data you specified in your metric family XML file.
4. Verify that the collected data is correct.
5. Verify that the item data synchronizes correctly with CA Performance Center, if item synchronization is configured.
6. Run a discovery again and verify that the information updates correctly.

More information:

How to Create a Custom Metric Family