Collecting data

TrueSight Capacity Optimization provides two ways of collecting data for supporting TrueSight Capacity Optimization use cases:

Connectors or ETL modulesCapacity Agents

Connectors can integrate with various data sources by means of ETL modules, that are based on Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) technology. 

For more information, see Overview of ETLs.

By leveraging the Gateway Server, operating system data is collected from managed nodes that are running capacity agents. 

For more information, see Collecting data via Capacity Agents.

Collecting data for business services

For business service details to be displayed on the TrueSight Capacity Optimization pages, you must first import the data related to your business services into the Capacity Optimization database. For more information, see Collecting data for business services, applications, and service pools.

After you install  TrueSight Cloud Cost Control , you must configure data collection before using the product features. With TrueSight Cloud Cost Control , you can analyze the current and future costs and utilization of your multi-cloud infrastructure based on data that is extracted from various data sources.

TrueSight Cloud Cost Control supports the following data sources and technologies:

Public cloudOn-premises
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Hyper-V
  • KVM
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
  • Standalone or Virtual Node
  • vSphere
  • Xen

Data from these sources is collected by using ETL modules, which are based on the Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) technology. You must configure the required ETL modules and run them to collect data. The collected data is stored in the Capacity Optimization database.

ETL modules for data collection

Depending on your data source and technology, you can choose the appropriate ETLs from the following list: 

Data source / TechnologyETLDescription
Public clouds
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

.Amazon Web Services - AWS API Extractor v11.5


Collects AWS infrastructure data
.Amazon Web Services - Cost and Usage Extractor v11.5

Collects AWS billing and consumption reports on daily cost and usage data for your AWS accounts

Microsoft Azure

.Microsoft Azure - Azure API Extractor v11.5

Collects Azure infrastructure data
.Microsoft Azure - Cost and Usage Extractor v11.5

Collects Azure billing and consumption reports on daily cost and usage data for your Azure accounts

Google Cloud Platform.Google Cloud Platform - GCP API Extractor v11.5Collects Google Cloud infrastructure data
.Google Cloud Platform - Billing and Usage Extractor v11.5

Collects Google Cloud billing and consumption reports on daily cost and usage data for your Google Cloud accounts

On-premises
Hyper-V

Collects metrics for Hyper-V1

KVM

Collects metrics for KVM1

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

.Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization - Extractor service v11.3.01

Collects metrics for RHEV systems
Standalone or Virtual Node

Collects metrics for standalone systems1

vSphereVMware - vCenter Extractor Service ETL module

Collects metrics for VMware instances

Xen

.BMC - TrueSight Capacity Optimization Gateway VIS files parser v11.5

Collects metrics for Xen virtual machines1

1 To use the BMC - TrueSight Capacity Optimization Gateway VIS files parser, you must install and configure the Gateway Server and Capacity Agent components. For more information, see Installing the Gateway Server components Open link and Installing the Capacity Agent Open link .

Collecting data for business services

For business service details to be displayed on the TrueSight Cloud Cost Control pages, you must first import the data related to your business services into the Capacity Optimization database. For more information, see .Collecting business service data v11.5.

Where to go from here

After you complete the required configuration for data collection, authorize users to access the product so that they can start using the features. For more information, see Authorizing users to access TrueSight Cloud Cost Control Open link .

Was this page helpful? Yes No Submitting... Thank you

Comments