The Orchestrate Metrics Facility collects, aggregates, and allows simple fact-based retrieval of metric values by jobs and computed facts (via JDL), policy constraints, and Event triggers on a per-resource basis.
A Metrics object is deployed in the Explorer tree. Use the right-click menu to display the “deploy” and “undeploy” actions. Pre-defined .metric files are located in the /opt/novell/zenworks/zos/server/components/metrics folder, or you can create a new .metric file and paste in an XML file.
NOTE:You can also use the zosadmin deploy command to deploy a .metric file. For example:
zosadmin deploy load_one.metric
Metrics objects are listed by their deployment name, which may or may not be the same as the name of the actual metric. This potentially allows multiple, separately deployable, RRD definitions for a single “instantaneous” metric, with different aggregation periods defined.
For more information about using metrics, see Section C.0, The Metrics Facility of this guide, and Resource Metrics Facts
in the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.5 Developer Guide and Reference.