(DI-1902) KPI Tree and Context Menu
Figure 72: KPI tree
Nodes in a KPI tree have either an active or an inactive status. A KPI node is inactive, when the KPI values for the selected systems and servers, weren't measured in a selected time interval. Inactive KPI group node occurs, when all KPIs are inactive in a group and their sub-groups.
In the KPI mix tab, an active KPI node is displayed as a checkbox. Only checked KPIs are processed by the KPI mixer. More details about this functionality are described in separate section KPI mix tab.
Tree Context Menu
The KPI tree provides two types of context menus when the user right clicks on the KPI tree node.
- Folder context menu - provides functionality to select/deselect all KPIs assigned to this folder and also for its sub-folders. It is useful mainly in the KPI Mix tab, where you can select/unselect KPI nodes.
- KPI context menu - provides default set of functions which can be executed over each KPI. The functionality 'Detail table(s)' is available only when any detail table exist for selected KPI. When not, this functionality is not visible. All functions are explained in next chapter.
KPI Context Menu
Suggest KPI
Suggest KPI opens an email communication where you can send a new KPI definition suggestion to the support team or any other recipient.
KPI Info
KPI Info displays a pop-up window with basic information about selected KPI (e.g. KPI name, description, unit).
Find correlated KPI(s)
This menu item consists of sub-menu with selected systems or servers in the System tree. The content of this sub-menu depends on whether the selected KPI is defined as a System or Server KPI. It means that when the user selects a System KPI, only selected systems from System tree will be available. Otherwise there will be only available the selected servers.
After the system or server selection, the correlation functionality is executed. This functionality calculates the correlation coefficients for all relevant KPIs which have the same period of collection (e.g. 5 min) and have at least two collected values in the checking time period. Correlation coefficients have the values from the interval < -1;1 >. The closer is the coefficient to the value = abs(1) then more correlating KPI is. By default, only first twenty most correlating KPIs which have the coefficient greater then 0.7, are displayed. The list of all found correlating KPIs are displayed in the KPI Mix tab (when no correlating KPI is found then only selected KPI is displayed in KPI mixer).
Report Incident
This item just helps users to jump directly into the Incident Management.