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 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, which perform monitoring, data collection, and data aggregation, can often function independently. However, once they are registered to an instance of CA Performance Center, they are called data sources.
domain
IP domains are logical groupings that identify data collected 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
reports
Reports describe the output from an exported dashboard page. Reports contain the same data and information as the associated dashboards, but they are formatted to meet the requirements of the export destination. You can print reports, send them by email, or export them in PDF format.
REST
REST, or Representational State Transfer, refers to a method of structuring software for the World Wide Web or other applications that conform to the requirements of HTTP in client-server networks. The REST model lets you access a set of resources by means of a fixed set of operations. This model takes advantage of widely deployed HTTP features that are supported by common hardware, such as gateway devices.
role
The role is a parameter assigned to a user account that controls user access to product features and dashboard pages. Based on user job functions, the role grants administrative access to product configuration. In a well-planned deployment, roles let users access dashboards that they require to perform their duties and restrict access to features that they do not require.
shared dashboard
A shared dashboard is a page that is included in a shared menu—any menu other than the My Dashboards menu, whose contents are specific to user accounts.
Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On is the term used to describe the authentication scheme used by CA data sources that CA Performance Center supports. The Single Sign-On component provides the login page that supports user authentication in CA Performance Center and in the data source products. Once users are authenticated to CA Performance Center, they can navigate among CA Performance Center and registered data sources without signing in a second time.
site groups
Site groups are custom groups that are based on physical locations, such as a city, region, office, or campus. Typically, they contain items and subgroups of items that are grouped by location. When you add site groups to the other custom groups in your tree structure, you can build reports that are organized both geographically and logically. Site groups enable business-hour filtering of dashboard views.
SNMP profiles
SNMP profiles are definitions that contain the information necessary to enable secure queries of device MIBs using SNMP.
Summary pages
Summary pages provide high-level information, such as averages from groups of managed items. Summary dashboards often provide a drilldown path to more detailed, related pages from a selected context.
tab
Tabs are the prominent links across the top of the CA Performance Center interface that let you view dashboards and open administration tools. For example, the Dashboards tab lets you select a dashboard page to view from a menu.
tenant
A tenant represents a customer environment that a managed service provider administers. Each tenant environment is independent and effectively functions as a separate instance of CA Performance Center. Each instance can contain multiple users and roles that are not shared among tenants.
tenant administrator
A tenant administrator has permissions to view all data from a single tenant. The tenant administrator can also add configuration, such as group definitions, profiles, and user accounts, to this tenant. This administrator role does not have permission to view items associated with any other tenant.
view
Views, or data views, present statistical data, usually in a graph or table format. Each view represents a discrete set of collected data. Depending on your user account role rights, you can add and edit individual views or remove them from a dashboard page. In some cases, you can export the data to a file in CSV format.
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