Creating a line or area graph

Line graphs are the most common type of graphs that plot linear relationships.
 Area graphs are specialized line graphs. However, they can plot only single instance and single attribute selections, and indicators are not applicable to area graphs. To view parent and child instances for the selected monitor instance, see the following:

To create a line or area graph

  1. In the navigation pane in the Operations Console, click Views & Graphs.
  2. In the Views & Graphs drawer, click the Custom Graphs icon custom_graphs_icon.GIF.
  3. In the Custom Graphs screen, select the Line Graph Line_graph.gifor Area Graph option Area_graph.gif.
  4. Select Group Filter.

    Select the desired group. Selecting a filter limits your graph choices to the selected group and provides a means of organizing your data. Selecting No Filter lets you generate a graph from all resources in the system, regardless of whether they are in a group or not.
  5. Select Monitor Type.

    For an individual graph, select only one monitor type. For multiple monitor graphs, select more than one monitor type.
  6. Click Next to open the Monitor Instance area. A list of resource instances available under the monitor type you selected is displayed.
  7. Select the resource instances to monitor, and click Apply.

    The Custom Graph screen is displayed. In the Custom Graphs screen, select graph options for the graphs.
  8. Select appropriate values in the Filter Area.
    • Show Graph for the last — Select the amount of time you want to show on the graph. The list lets you select from 1 hour up to 3 months.

    • Time Range — The Time Range option allows the Start and End Time selections to reflect either a particular day and hour or a particular duration of time, such as the last four hours. You can change the time and date when you want to view resource data for the previous day, week, or hour to compare measurements. For the monitors that are added to collect only events using BMC PATROL Agent 9.5 or later, the permitted time range is 24 hours.

      Notes

      If, during the time range you select, no data was collected for the selected active attribute and other attributes from the same monitor are collecting data, then the generated graph will be empty.

      If, during the time range you select, no data was collected for the selected inactive attribute and other attributes from the same monitor are collecting data, then the generated graph displays one data point.

  9. Select appropriate options in the Attributes area.

    The Attributes area lets you dynamically change statistical data displayed in the graph you are viewing. The statistics selections (attributes) vary based on the monitored entity. A colored box around an attribute indicates that there is at least one open event of the severity indicated by the color of the box.

    You can select device or application-dependent elements for viewing. Select the attributes you want to graph for each instance. The attributes available vary depending on the monitor chosen. You can chart up to 12 attributes per graph; however, you are limited to two units of measure (# and ms). However, for the monitors that are added to collect only events using BMC PATROL Agent 9.5 or later, you can select only 1 attribute per graph.

    Attributes Area
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  10. Select appropriate options in the Indicators area.
    Indicators provide options for dynamically changing the charting of data. When selecting any indicator, only one statistic (attribute) is viewable at a time because the indicator cannot relate to more than one measurement. These values can be used only if multiple attributes have not been selected. Thresholds and a Config attribute may also be graphed.
    • Hourly Baseline, Daily Baseline, Weekly Baseline, or Hourly & Daily Baseline: There are two baselines: Baseline High and Baseline Low. Baseline High represents the point at which 95% of the weighted average of the historical values fall below this value for that hour, day, or week. Baseline Low represents the point at which 90% of the weighted average of historical values for that hour, day, or week fall above this line. Baseline indicators always use the current week as baseline data. The baseline indicator is recalibrated for each hourly point per week.
    • All Baselines: Select this option to show condensed Baseline High and Baseline Low for hourly, daily, and weekly baseline values.
    • Hourly Max: Highest values of data found for the specified graph period. Peak indicator can be selected only when viewing data older than 24 hours.
    • Hourly Min: Lowest values of data found for the specified graph period. Low indicator can be selected only when viewing data older than 24 hours.
    • Minor, Major, Critical Absolute Thresholds: If thresholds have been set for the data type that you are viewing, check boxes are displayed. These indicators show you what the event settings are relative to the performance of the data you are viewing.
    • Minor Signature Threshold: Composite values of signature minor threshold, baseline associated to threshold, and applied PAD factor
    • Major Signature Threshold: Composite values of signature major threshold, baseline associated to threshold, and applied PAD factor
    • Critical Signature Threshold: Composite values of signature critical threshold, baseline associated to threshold, and applied PAD factor
    • Abnormality Threshold: Composite values of abnormality threshold, baseline, which is associated to threshold, and applied PAD factor
    • Show Intelligent Events: If there are any intelligent events on the selected attributes and for the selected duration, same is displayed as an icon. There are two different icons for open and closed intelligent events. BMC PATROL Agent events that are associated with monitors are also considered intelligent events and are displayed as such.
    • Show Abnormality: If there are any events on the selected attributes and for the selected duration, same is displayed as an icon.
    • Show External Events: If there are any events raised by change entry, SNMP trap, or external events, the same is displayed as an icon.
    • Show Violations: If there are any violations on the selected attributes and for the selected duration, same is displayed as an icon. There are two different icons for open and closed violations.
    • Period Max: Displays highest attribute value on the Y-axis
    • Period Min: Displays lowest attribute value on the Y-axis
    • Period Avg: Displays average attribute value of all points of Period Min and Period Max attribute values
    • Shaded Baseline: Select this option to highlight the area corresponding to the previous baseline selection.

    • Config Attributes: These attributes are displayed only if configuration attributes are available on the monitor.

      Note

      SLO indicator is available for upgrade setups with existing views only.

    • Show Annotations: If there are any annotations on the selected attributes and for the selected duration, the same is displayed as an icon.

    • Show PATROL Threshold: Displays the threshold ranges that are set for the attributes

      Note

      The Show Annotations and Show PATROL Thresholds indicators are available only for the monitors that are configured using BMC PATROL Agent version 9.5 or later.

  11. (Optional) Select Schedule from the list.
    • Click New to define a new schedule.
    • Click Edit to change the selected schedule.
  12. Select an appropriate Graphoption.
    • Show all attributes on a single graph—All attributes you select are charted on one graph.
    • Show each monitor instance on a separate graph—If you chose more than one instance, each instance is charted on a separate graph.
    • Show each attribute on a separate graph—If you select more than one attribute, each is charted separately on separate graphs.
    • Show selected attributes on the corresponding graph—This preserves the existing graph settings. If you select some more attributes for the existing graph, the new attributes are added to the same graph.
  13. Select Device Name, Instance Name, or Attribute Name to show the same in the legend.

  14. Select the Data Type to be used.

    Note

    When raw data is selected and if raw data is not available for the entire time range, rate data is used.

  15. Select Auto Scale if you need autoscaling for the graph. Unless this option is unchecked, all graphs are automatically scaled.
  16. Select Refresh this page for every "n" minutes to refresh the page for the specified time. This option can be selected only if relative time range option is selected from the filter area.
  17. Click Generate Graph.

    The individual or multiple monitor graph displays the attributes selected.

Viewing the generated graph

Based on the attributes and indicators selected, on the Graph tab, the graph is displayed. You can change the parameters on the displayed screen or use the icons located on the side of the graph to perform other functions. See Additional-information-for-changing-graph-display for information about these icons.

On the Attributes & Indicators tab, you can find the following icons with the monitor name:

  • The marked_for_deletion.gificon indicates that the monitor is marked for delete.
  • The streamed.pngicon indicates that the data is streamed to the server from agent of version 9.5 or later.
  • The blackout.gificon indicates that the events originating from the monitor are blacked out.

To show the parent instance for the selected monitor instance

Click Show Parent in the graph display screen to display the immediate parent instances or the complete hierarchy of parent instances.

If this instance does not have stats attributes, the Show Parent link displays the super parent which has stats attributes.

To show the child instances for the selected monitor instance

  1. Click Show Children in the graph display screen to display a menu of all the child instances of the selected monitor instance.
  2. Select any child instance to create a graph for that instance. A submenu of the child instances is displayed with all the instances that have stats attributes. You can also select to display the first 50 child instances by using the All option. This option displays only the instances that have stats attributes.

    Show children
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