Terminology
Term | Description |
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Alert | An alert is an event that is triggered when a particular performance metric exceeds the specified number of exceptions in a specified time window interval. You can create the following alerts:
All parameters for an alert are defined in an alert rule. |
Alert rule | An alert rule determines how many Exception Intervals in a specified time window must be found for a particular performance metric to raise a warning, error, or severe alert. The alerts are based on the statistical thresholds or constant thresholds. |
Capacity Management Database (CDB) | CDB collects and stores system performance data from various sources, including mainframe systems. BMC AMI Capacity Reporting uses this data to generate detailed reports and analyses. |
Dashboard | A dashboard is a high level container that can hold up to eight workflows organized by objective or business process. It also enables you to view an Alert Summary. |
Exception interval | An interval where the measured or aggregated value of a performance metric is outside the statistical or constant threshold. |
Nightly process | An automated process that runs in a predefined interval. This process retrieves data from the database and loads it into both the report view and the dashboard. The nightly process performs the following tasks:
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Report view | A format that summarizes the information retrieved from the database. |
Shift profile | A profile that maps all hours of the week into groups (called shifts) of similar activity in z/OS system. Shift Profiles are used to calculate Statistical bands for Performance Metrics. |
Stand-alone dashboard viewer | A stand-alone serverless web application exported and hosted entirely on the file system. It allows you to view and interact with the exported dashboards. |
Workflow | A set of Report views that display the relevant performance data. |
Universal Information Exchange (UIE) | A BMC component that runs on your mainframe system to read and process SMF/RMF and subsystem data collected from target z/OS images. UIE creates a Visualizer file that is populated into the Capacity Management Database (CDB). |