Change component item names in Performance Management

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

Item names for some Component Items aren't useful. How can we change the name of these items?

For example Firewall Disk Partitions are showing names such as "device-disk-1","device-disk-2", "device-disk-3". Expect them to be named using what they represent, like the root or '/' directory/partition, or the /boot partition. In this case they are represented by these MIB Objects.

• .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.8.1.2.1 = STRING: "/"
• .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.8.1.2.2 = STRING: "/boot"
• .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.8.1.2.3 = STRING: "/var/log"

Environment

Release : 3.7

Component : IM Reporting / Admin / Configuration

Resolution

The Names metric is what controls Item names for a given Vendor Certification.

Use the Extension function for Certifications to over-ride the default Name metric expression with a custom one that changes the item names to a more meaningful value.

Certification Extension Documentation can be found here:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/3-7/building/self-certification/create-or-extend-vendor-certifications.html