If you assigned a new Monitoring profile to a default KPI or created a custom KPI, it is necessary to create a Collector job to start the monitoring of the KPI. A Collector job runs periodically as a background job.
For more information about the individual fields in the Collector jobs tab, see the section (DI-2205) Working Tabs.
A requirement for executing the monitoring is that you assigned a Monitoring profile to a KPI (see the chapter (DI-2205) Define a Monitoring Profile for a KPI).
You may execute the monitoring of a KPI on a specific system only under one Monitoring profile. For more information about this requirement, see the section Monitoring profile. |
Monitoring profile: monitoring profile of the KPIs. You may check the monitoring profile of your KPIs under Monitoring Settings > KPI definitions > Assigned profiles.
You may create and assign a KPI to several Monitoring profiles, but only one of these profiles will be enabled during the monitoring. In the case, you assigned a KPI to more monitoring profiles, see below the instructions on how to Start or stop the monitoring of a KPI with a Monitoring profile. |
For more information about the Monitoring profile, see the chapter (DI-2205) Define a Monitoring Profile for a KPI.
Retention time: how long data is stored on the central monitoring system. Once the retention time has elapsed, data will be deleted.
The retention time doesn't apply to data that belongs to a time interval, which you specified before. See more information about the time interval specification in the chapter (DI-2205) Store Data Defined Through a Time Interval. |
After you started the Collector job we recommend checking the status of its execution. To perform this, view the icon in Last status in the Collector Jobs tab. The status may be as follows:
Aborted - the last background job of the Collector job was terminated by an error or canceled by the user.
To check the reason for the Collector job failure, go to the Messages tab or select the button Background Job Name for the aborted Collector job. |
You may change the setting of a present Collector job.
To modify the Collector job, click Modify collector job tab. Then proceed as described above.
If you modify a Collector job and change its Monitoring profile, Insights creates a new Collector job for this Monitoring profile. |
To stop the monitoring of KPIs assigned to a Monitoring profile on a specific system:
In the case you stopped the monitoring of KPIs assigned to a Monitoring profile on a specific system, the KPIs still exist on the central system. |
In this step, you may either delete the monitoring settings of a KPI and keep its historical data or delete both monitoring settings and the KPIs' historical data.
By deleting the monitoring settings (Collector job) of KPIs, you don't delete KPIs. You can start to monitor the KPIs later on with another created Collector job. |
Delete permanently all KPI data collected by this Collector job. In this case select 'Yes,del.data'.
All historical data of the KPI is deleted. As the KPI isn't monitored and all its data is deleted, you can't display it in charts.
The deletion of a Collector job deletes all collected data with the exception of data collected in saved time intervals. For more information, see the chapter (DI-2205) Store Data Defined Through a Time Interval. |
A KPI can be monitored for a specific system only with one Monitoring profile.
If you start the monitoring of the same KPI with a second Monitoring profile for the same system, the monitoring of the second Monitoring profile of this KPI is excluded from the monitoring. In this case, Insights displays a dialog, where you can view which Monitoring profile of the KPI was monitored first. |
In the case you want to start monitoring a KPI with a new Monitoring profile, you must first stop monitoring the KPI under its original Monitoring profile.
To perform this, please follow these steps:
The complete setup of the custom KPI collection is described in the chapter (DI-2205) The Complete Process of Custom KPI Creation and Data Collection. |