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Use an Auxiliary Knowledge Base for Reporting and Archiving

The Performance Manager generates Analysis Reports based on the Performance Manager factory knowledge base combined with the auxiliary knowledge base when you specify the name of your auxiliary rules file with the following command:

$ ADVISE PERFORMANCE REPORT ANALYSIS/RULES=MYRULES.KB

The Performance Manager archives analysis results for rules in all domains, except CLUSTER and SUMMARY. When you issue the following command, rule occurrences based on the Performance Manager factory knowledge base combined with the auxiliary knowledge base are archived:

$ ADVISE ARCHIVE/RULES=MYRULES.KB

If you want to use the auxiliary knowledge base regularly, you can use the Performance Manager Parameter Editor (ADVISE EDIT command) to set the AUTO_AUGMENT parameter to the name of your rule file. This setting becomes the system-wide default. The Performance Manager uses your auxiliary knowledge base file and augments the factory rules whenever you generate an Analysis Report or archive data.

When configuring AUTO_AUGMENT to use an auxiliary rules file in an OpenVMS Cluster, place the file in PSDC$DATABASE or place it in another directory that is accessible by all nodes of the cluster. If a logical name is used within the file specification, be sure that the logical name is defined in the SYSTEM logical name table on all nodes. Alternatively, the cluster logical name table could be used.

You can override the AUTO_AUGMENT parameter and specify another auxiliary rules file with the following command:

$ ADVISE PERFORMANCE REPORT ANALYSIS/RULES=MY_OTHER_RULES.KB

You can override the AUTO_AUGMENT parameter entirely and specify no auxiliary rules with the following command:

$ ADVISE PERFORMANCE REPORT ANALYSIS/NORULES

To clear the automatic augmenting of your site-specific rules, specify SET NOAUTO_AUGMENT with the Performance Manager Parameter Editor.