Data Collection

The CA SYSVIEW data collector components collect, monitor, and provide exception processing for many resources and metrics.

In some sites, users decide they do not want to collect information about all possible resources and metrics. In this situation, the collection of unwanted or unneeded metrics is a waste of important system resources and CPU cycles.

You can control what is collected and how often it is collected using the Event Scheduler.

Controlling the data collection metrics can:

Reduce CPU cycles
Reduce the amount of storage used by the data collection data spaces

The reduction in data space storage also reduces the amount of real storage used by the SYSVAAST data anchor address space.

This section contains the following topics:

How to Control Data Collection Using the Event Scheduler

PARMLIB Members Containing Data Collection Definitions

Control Data Collection Events

VARIABLE-SET—Enable and Disable Data Collection Metrics