AppManager allows you to collect data from the QDBs in your Control Center environment and generate charts and reports for data analysis.
You can use most Knowledge Scripts to collect data from QDBs and generate charts. You can view charts on the Charts tab in Control Center or in the AppManager Chart Console. The Charts tab provides quick access to collected data directly from Control Center. The tab is available in the Server Information and Service Map Object Information panes. For more information about the Charts tab, see Section 11.3, Working with the Charts Tab. The Chart Console runs as a standalone application. For more information about the Chart Console, see Section 11.4, Working with the Chart Console.
You can use some Knowledge Scripts to generate application-specific and generic reports based on data from a single QDB. For more information about generating basic AppManager reports, see Section 10.0, Running Reports. You can use NetIQ AppManager Analysis Center to generate reports that include data from more than one QDB. For more information about using Analysis Center, see the Analysis Center product documentation.
To configure a Knowledge Script job to collect data and generate charts, enable the data collection parameter on the Values tab of the Job Properties window. Each time the job runs, it collects time and value pairs called data points. A series of data points is a data stream.
If a job collects more than one kind of information, it creates several data streams. For example, the NT_CpuResource Knowledge Script collects four data points (User CPU, Number of processes, All threads, and Interrupts for all CPU), which appear as separate data streams in charts.
The QDB stores each data stream a Knowledge Script job generates so you can view data later. A chart is a view of one or more data streams.
As a job runs, AppManager constantly appends new data to the data stream. By default, AppManager keeps the data points that jobs collect for a given day in a data table for immediate display in real-time charts and graphs for 30 days, and each day removes any data tables that are more than 30 days old. For information about changing the default setting, see Section 3.2.8, Global Preferences Options.