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How to create custom Metric Family from default in Performance Management
Article ID: 143476
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Products
CA Infrastructure Management
CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
DX NetOps
Issue/Introduction
How to create a custom Metric Family using a default Metric Family in Performance Management.
What are the minimum required fields to edit when creating a custom Metric Family using a copy from a default Metric Family?
Cause
Need to create a custom Metric Family to force assignment of specific Vendor Certifications to specific devices using Collections and Vendor Certification Priority changes.
Environment
All supported Performance Management releases
Resolution
- Identify the Metric Family to be copied and copy it's content for editing and use as a template. See the steps listed in the documentation linked in Additional Information.
- Before issuing a POST via REST to the Data Aggregator to import the custom Metric Family the following values need to be changed.
- Each Metric Family must use unique values, not used by another Metric Family, for these values:
- <FacetType Name="<value>"
- <TableName>
- <DisplayName>
- Each Metric Family imported as custom must have these values changed from the default one. These values can be reused for other custom Metric Families.
- <Author> (recommend 'custom' or company name)
- <Version> (recommend starting with 1.0 and increment the value as changes are made)
- We also recommend the <Documentation> tag value be edited to reflect the custom Metric Families intended use.
- Each Metric Family must use unique values, not used by another Metric Family, for these values:
Additional Information
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