Sysload: What are Entities

Products

• CA Automic Sysload

Issue/Introduction

• Entities provide a method of fine-tuning Agents in order to attain a broader scope of the monitoring
• They help identify and monitor specific workloads

- For example: assessing the impact of an application or user on CPU and Memory

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Sysload categorizes Entities into "types" according to their function and definition method:

• Application:

- Enables Entity analysis of specific applications by tracking processes

• User:

- Enables Entity analysis of specific applications by tracking user or group of users (and processes)

- Prefer using User instead of Application to track all processes run under a specific user (The Agent Collector will consume less resources)

• Service: 

- Enables Entity analysis of a Windows service

• Storage (also called Storage Space)

- Creates an Entity for a file system or a group of file systems
- Mainly used to report on storage space consumption by Applications (by duplicating storage consumption metrics in the Application domain)

Environment

Sysload Agents

Different Agent types have different Entity types:

• Sysload Agent for Windows:  Application, User, Service and Storage Space
• Sysload Agent for Unix: Application, User, Storage Space
• Sysload Agent for OS/400: User, Application

Resolution

How are Entities Defined, Managed and Applied?
Entities are defined, managed and applied in Analyst Rich Client (Console); using Entity Models

Where a "Model" is a list of Entites (a container)?
Two types of Models exists:

• Local Entity Model (superseded by Enterprise)
• Enterprise Entity Model

Additional Information

How to create an entity (EN) : https://communities.ca.com/message/242067639
How to create an entity (FR) : https://communities.ca.com/message/242067634

Sample Entities for Sysload Modules : https://marketplace.automic.com/details/sample-entities-for-sysload-modules

For more information, please consult the section "Defining and Managing Enterprise Models" on our website.