Some components show as not being supported by the relevant Metric Family in CAPM

Products

• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

Why does a metric family show as not supported when looking at Monitored Devices -> Device -> Polled Metric Families?

Environment

DX NetOps - All Supported Versions

 

Resolution

To find out why a Metric Family is listed as Not Supported you will need to look at each Vendor Certification listed within the Metric Family. 

You can see this information in the Portal GUI by going to Administration -> Data Sources -> Data Aggregator -> Monitoring Configuration -> Metric Families.

In the following example we are expecting the UPS Metric Family to be supported, specifically the three Power Net Vendor Certifications:

1. Access the Power Net UPS Battery Vendor Certification. (Monitoring Configuration -> Vendor Certifications)
   
   
2. Mouse over the name column header and click the cog wheel on the right of the column header
   
   
3. Click Columns then select Internal Name
   
   The internal name name of the Power Net UPS Battery vendor certification is PowerNetUPSBatteryMib
   
   
4. Take the internal name from step 3 to the following REST page: http://<DA_HOST>:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/internalName
   
   

   http://<DA_HOST>:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/PowerNetUPSBatteryMib

   https://<DA_HOST>:8582/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/PowerNetUPSBatteryMib
   
   

5. Scan through the certification looking for the <IsKey>true</IsKey> fields.  All key fields MUST be available and accessible when the Data Collector reaches out to the device for it to be supported.
   
   In this example the only IsKey OID is:

<Attribute name="Index" type="ObjectID">

<Documentation/>

<IsKey>true</IsKey>

<IsIndex>true</IsIndex>

<Source>1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.1.1.2</Source>

And the reason this example showed this Metric Family / Vendor Certification as unsupported is because 1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.1.1.2 does not exist on the end device.