OneSight Administrator Guide

Configuring Perfmon Monitors
Scale – Specifies any custom scaling to be applied to the
Perfmon metric when reported within OneSight. Typically, the
default 1.0 scale is appropriate.
Translation Type – Translation Type controls how a metric’s
data is displayed on the Alerts page and in Reports.
No Translation – OneSight will present the data as it is
provided by the metric’s data source.
Rate (minutes) – OneSight will present the data as a number,
per minute. For example, if the time interval between two
samples was 10 minutes, and 50 errors were found, the Rate
(minutes) would be five (5) errors per minute.
Note: Rate (minutes) translates data sources that return their
values as an endlessly increasing counter. If the data source
does not return data this way, use No Translation.
Unit Measure – Select which unit of measurement should be
associated with this metric and displayed in OneSight Alerts
and Reports.
% (percent) – As a percentage
bytes – this data will be expressed in bytes
hours – this data will be expressed in hours
minutes – this data will be expressed in minutes
seconds – this data will be expressed in seconds
– this data will be expressed with no unit of
measurement
Sample Every: – Specifies how often samples are
taken for this monitor. Refer to, ―Sample Every Settings,‖ later
in this chapter for a description of these settings.
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