Change the display name of a metric in reports and have it persist

Products

• Network Observability
• CA Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

We need to change the display name for the ‘high speed interface’ metric

"Historical Interface Speed (bps)"

To 

“Port Speed (bps)”

And it needs to persist through upgrades.

 

We have already dome an extension to the metric family but this doesnt affect the charts:

Environment

 DX NetOps :: All Supported Versions

Cause

 The display names seen in portal charts are controlled by property files, not MF extensions.

Resolution

You can use a rest client or use this cURL command:

 

curl -kv -u admin:admin -H 'Content-type: application/properties' -X PUT -d 'im.ca.com.normalizer.normalizedportinfo.attribute.historicalinterfacespeed.attributedisplayname=Port Speed (bps)' http://YOUR-DA:8581/typecatalog/metricfamilies/extension/NormalizedPortInfo

 

<<<please replace admin:admin with your user and password>>>

<<<please replace YOUR-DA with your DA>>>

 

note :: use https and 8582 as required

Additional Information

The PUT will create the file:

 

/opt/IMDataAggregator/data/certifications/extensions/metric_families/properties/NormalizedPortInfo.properties

 

with this content

 

#Installed via Type Catalog web services

#Fri May 08 11:01:32 UTC 2026

im.ca.com.normalizer.normalizedportinfo.attribute.historicalinterfacespeed.attributedisplayname=Port Speed (bps)

 

As well as register the changes in the da rest schema.

And the file location will insure upgrade persistence.