OneSight Administrator Guide

Global Metric Manager
Report Category – Choose which type of report should incorporate
the data from this metric. The Report Category
setting should work for most metrics. If you are modifying a metric
that is provided as part of a profile, try to use the existing Report
Category setting. The following list shows the reports that each
category lets you run:
– The most general reports.
Throughput – Reports that describe the volume of data that can be
transferred per unit of time
Response Time – Reports that provide response-related data, such
as how quickly a remote web site responds.
Monitor Is Operational – Reports that provide information on
monitor availability.
Translation Type – Translation Type settings control how OneSight
translates a metric’s data when displayed on the OneSight Alerts
page and in Reports. If you are modifying a metric that is provided
as part of a profile, use the existing Translation Type setting:
No Translation – OneSight presents the metric’s data as it is
provided by the metric’s data source.
Rate (minutes) – OneSight presents the metric’s data as a delta,
per minute. 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. For example, some network
metrics from the UNIX System data source are returned as the
number of errors since the machine was rebooted. To get the error
rate per minute, use Rate (minutes).
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