22.4 enhancements and patches

Verify the status of remote components

On the Status page, review the current status of remote components such as Remote ETL Engines and Gateway Servers. Use this information to identify the components that have issues, update the components that have outdated status, and deactivate or activate Remote ETL Engines. For details, see Checking-the-status-of-remote-components.

Detect data abnormalities by analyzing metric behavior against a baseline

As an administrator, create and manage baselines to compare metric behavior in an analysis or in a custom optimizer rule. For example, you can create a baseline to produce an average weekly profile over the last 30 days and use this baseline to compare with historical data.

When using a baseline in the analysis, compare the baseline with historical data to analyze any abnormality in the metric behavior. When using a baseline in the custom optimizer rule, an alert is generated when the metric has different behavior against the baseline. For details, see Managing-baselines.

Updates to the custom optimizer rules

The following enhancements are added to the custom optimizer rules: 

Specify a namespace to choose a data source for a metric 

Create an alert based on a hypervisor metric, an operating system-level metric, or a derived metric by selecting a namespace. When you select Formula as the condition type, enter the namespace for each metric within that formula according to the defined syntax. For other condition types, select the required namespace. 

Compare the day profile baseline data against the same day of the week or month

For the Data vs. Baseline condition type, select the data to be evaluated against the baseline over the specified condition period. An alert is generated when a metric of the entity has different behavior with respect to the baseline when compared against the same day of the week or month.  

For details, see Adding-a-custom-Optimizer-rule.

Create a composite report based on a report template

In the Workspace, create a composite report for a parent domain by using a report template. The report is created by combining all the leaf domain reports that are generated at runtime. This runtime report generation saves time required to manually create a separate report for each leaf domain. For more information, see Creating-reports.

Get insights into the overall health and status of business services in BMC Helix Dashboards

Create a custom dashboard in BMC Helix Dashboards for business services by using the Service Risk and Mitigation query type and visualization plug-in. Use this plug-in to visualize the business service performance based on the correlation between business drivers and resources of a pool. Service owners can use this information to get insights into the overall health and status of business services in BMC Helix Dashboards. 

For details, see Using-BMC-Helix-Dashboards.

Manage the capacity of your mainframe environment

ETL to import data from the mainframe environment

Use the BMC Mainframe CDB Extractor to collect configuration and performance data of mainframe resources. For details, see BMC-Mainframe-CDB-Extractor.

Out-of-the-box view for mainframe

Analyze and manage the mainframe resources, such as CPCs, LPARs, and Storage Controllers by using the Mainframe View. For details, see Mainframe-view.

Nonnegative percentile-shift linear trend algorithm in Time Forecasting Model

The Nonnegative percentile-shift linear trend algorithm is a variant of the Robust linear regression algorithm. In this algorithm, the predicted linear trend is constrained to have a nonnegative slope. Additionally, the prediction starts from a user-defined percentile level of the historical data.

Use this algorithm to prevent modeling the forecasted data that has a negative slope and to perform a conservative prediction.

For details, see Time-forecasting-model-algorithms-for-detecting-monotonic-trends-in-data. 

Visualize server capacity data by using the Maps page

Use the Maps page in the Servers Overview view to visualize the server capacity data in a hierarchical structure as a set of nested rectangles. For details, see Maps-page-in-the-Servers-Overview-view. 

Filter data based on domains and tags for Optimize data marts in BMC Helix Dashboards

In BMC Helix Dashboards, use the Domain Filter and Tag Filter to search for and filter data based on a specific domain or tag.  Configure these filters in the Optimize data marts query type to filter data based on domains, such as AWS and KVM, or based on tags, such as high priority and medium priority. 

For details, see Using-BMC-Helix-Dashboards.

Display of the Standard Time label to indicate time zones not affected by DST

While selecting the time zone in an analysis, you can check whether the time zone follows the Daylight Saving Time (DST) or not by using the Standard Time label. For details, see Editing-general-properties-for-an-analysis.