Monitoring the monitoring state of devices in DX Netops Performance Management 20.2.x

Products

• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration

Issue/Introduction

1. Can we generate any report to get the status of device monitoring? 

2. Can we monitor/notify on monitoring status?

 

Environment

Release : 20.2

Component : PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT INTEGRATIONS

Resolution

1) Notifications/Events for Data Collection:

You may be able to see examples of these if you go to:

Performance->Operations Displays->Events Display

Search for "Data Collection" (omit the quotes) 

2) You could also look at Life Cycle events to see when devices change state.

3) There are "Polling Safety Valve" events:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/20-2/troubleshooting/polling-safety-valve-event-message.html

4) There are polling stopped events:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/20-2/troubleshooting/polling-stopped-event-message.html

5) See examples here of using the Open API to look at different polling/management issues.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/20-2/apis/openapi/openapi-querybuilder-examples.html