Discrepancy in Metric Family names in Portal and Query Builder

Products

• Network Observability
• CA Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

How can I correlate metric family names in OpenAPI query builder to what we see in Portal?

Environment

Dx NetOps Performance Management any version

Resolution

Going to:

 

http://<DA>:8581/odata/api/metricfamilydefs

 

... should give you everything you need

 

For example:

 

<entry>

<id>http://<DA>:8581/odata/api/metricfamilydefs('ciscoucsbladeinterfacemf')</id>

<title type="text">metricfamilydefs</title>

<updated>2025-01-02T14:52:39.288Z</updated>

<category term="com.ca.im.odata.metricfamilydef" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme"/>

<link href="metricfamilydefs('ciscoucsbladeinterfacemf')" rel="edit" title="metricfamilydef"/>

<link href="metricfamilydefs('ciscoucsbladeinterfacemf')/metricdefs" rel="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/related/metricdefs" title="metricdefs" type="application/atom+xml;type=feed"/>

<link href="metricfamilydefs('ciscoucsbladeinterfacemf')/metricfamilyhistory" rel="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/related/metricfamilyhistory" title="metricfamilyhistory" type="application/atom+xml;type=entry"/>

<content type="application/xml">

<m:properties>

<d:ID>ciscoucsbladeinterfacemf</d:ID>

<d:DisplayName>Cisco UCS Blade Interface</d:DisplayName>

<d:DisplayDescription>Defines the identification information and polled metrics for Cisco UCS Blade Interface.</d:DisplayDescription>

<d:Status>NOT_SUPPORTED</d:Status>

<d:Protocol>IMDB</d:Protocol>

<d:TableName>NRM_CISCO_UCS_BLADEINTERFACE</d:TableName>

<d:Normalized m:null="true"/>

<d:ComponentFacets>{http://im.ca.com/inventory}CiscoUCSBladeInterface,{http://im.ca.com/inventory}Hierarchy</d:ComponentFacets>

</m:properties>

</content>

</entry>

<entry>