Viewing and understanding noise reduction metrics

Noise reduction capability reduces event volumes generated by Infrastructure Management servers based on the set of rules defined at the cell level.

This feature provides the following benefits:

Focus on important and relevant events: It reduces the need to analyze an endless number of incoming events and focus only on those events that are important and relevant to you.
Resolve issues faster: It avoids the need for creating and managing a variety of rules, filters, and thresholds and thus, helps you resolve issues faster.

Accessing the Noise Reduction Metrics page

To access noise reduction metrics, navigate to the Monitoring > Events. At the top-right of the page, noise reduction metrics is depicted as a percentage.

Out-of-the-box event admins and super admins can view and click the percentage displayed under Noise Reduction at the top-right of the page to see further details. To enable other users to view noise reduction metrics, administrators can provide the Show Noise Reduction Metrics permission on the Roles tab.

Noise reduction availability

Noise reduction metrics will not be available if all the Infrastructure Management servers are disconnected in your environment. However, if some of the servers are connected, while others are disconnected, then noise reduction metrics is displayed for the connected servers only.

Note that to be able to view noise reduction metrics, you need to ensure that both the Presentation Server and Infrastructure Management servers are upgraded to 11.3.02 or later. If some of the Infrastructure Management servers are upgraded to 11.3.02 or later while others are not, then noise reduction metrics is displayed for only those servers that are upgraded to 11.3.02 or later.

Understanding noise reduction metrics

On the Noise Reduction Metrics page, by default, you see an aggregate view of noise reduction. The aggregate view represents metrics for all the available Infrastructure Management servers (including all the associated remote cells) that are integrated with the TrueSight Presentation Server.

Note that noise reduction metrics displayed is directly dependent on the event sources selected. Thus, if you change the event source selection on the Events page, then the noise reduction metrics will reflect that selection.

You can change the event source selection from the Noise Reduction Metrics page also. You can choose to show metrics data for selected Infrastructure Management servers, selected remote cells, or a combination of selected Infrastructure Management servers and remote cells. For more information, see Viewing noise reduction metrics for particular event sources.

By default, the noise reduction metrics data is refreshed every two minutes. On the Events page, if you turn off events auto-refresh, noise reduction metrics do not get refreshed automatically.

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Noise reduction percentage calculation

The Noise Reduction Metrics page displays the noise reduction percentage, which is calculated as:

Noise reduction metric descriptions

The Noise Reduction Metrics page displays the total count of each of the metrics used to calculated the noise reduction percentage.

The following table describes the various metrics:

Noise reduction metrics exclusions

The following scenarios are excluded while calculating noise reduction metrics:

Rate events coming from user-configured custom cells.
Events propagated by remote cells that are not registered with Infrastructure Management servers.

Note

To be able to see noise reduction metrics correctly, it is necessary that remote cells propagate events to a single Infrastructure Management server.

Viewing noise reduction metrics for particular event sources

You can view noise reduction metrics for all the Infrastructure Management servers (including all the associated remote cells), selected Infrastructure Management servers, selected remote cells, or a combination of selected Infrastructure Management servers and remote cells. This capability can also help you compare noise reduction metrics between the selected Infrastructure Management servers or remote cells.

To select event sources:

From the Noise Reduction Metrics main action menu, select, Select Event Source.
Select the desired Infrastructure Management servers and remote cells. Otherwise, to view noise reduction for all the Infrastructure Management servers, select All Infrastructure Management servers.
Click Select.
Note
If you select particular remote cells to view noise reduction metrics and if some of those cells are disconnected or not running, then data will be displayed only for the connected remote cells.
Best practice
Even though there is no specific limit on the number of event sources that you can select to represent on the graph, as a best practice do not select more than 25 event sources for a better viewing experience.

Setting the Noise Reduction Metrics page as the landing page

From the Noise Reduction Metrics main action menu, select Set as Landing Page.

Disabling noise reduction metrics

If you do not want noise reduction metrics to be displayed on the Events page, perform the following steps:

On the Presentation Server, go to the command line.
Run the following command: tssh properties set cell.metrics.cache.scheduler.repeat.delay 0 reload

Resetting noise reduction metrics

Noise reduction metrics are calculated and displayed based on particular rules defined at the cell level. Suppose while noise reduction is still on, you change the rules to get better noise reduction. In this scenario, you might want the metrics to be calculated freshly. In this case, you can reset the noise reduction metrics as described in the following steps.

On each of the Infrastructure Management servers in your environment, go to the command line.
Run the following command for each cell (local and remote) associated with the Infrastructure Management server.
mcontrol -n <cellName> metrics reset
For more information, see Running the mcontrol command.