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Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

We don't have a way to represent this using bar charts, but you could report on each group of devices (group aggregation) using the following type of view:

And in the metric selection, add the Active Session Users to the list. 

This should generate a trend line for each group showing the aggregate active session user count for that group. Again not bar charts, but a trend for each group. 

The other option is to build an custom openAPI app that gets the aggregate data from openAPI and then creates some bar charts for presentation. 

Regards,
Kishan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

We don't have a way to represent this using bar charts, but you could report on each group of devices (group aggregation) using the following type of view:

And in the metric selection, add the Active Session Users to the list. 

This should generate a trend line for each group showing the aggregate active session user count for that group. Again not bar charts, but a trend for each group. 

The other option is to build an custom openAPI app that gets the aggregate data from openAPI and then creates some bar charts for presentation. 

Regards,
Kishan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

Ah - yes you will get an aggregate value for each group as an average as the roll up strategy for that metric is Average. 

What you could do for this particular need is to create a new metric with a roll up strategy of Sum - then when you plot this new metric against the group, it will provide an aggregate value for each group as a sum. 

Are you aware of how to extend an OOTB certification?  

Regards,

Kishan

We don't have a way to represent this using bar charts, but you could report on each group of devices (group aggregation) using the following type of view:

And in the metric selection, add the Active Session Users to the list. 

This should generate a trend line for each group showing the aggregate active session user count for that group. Again not bar charts, but a trend for each group. 

The other option is to build an custom openAPI app that gets the aggregate data from openAPI and then creates some bar charts for presentation. 

Regards,
Kishan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

Ah - yes you will get an aggregate value for each group as an average as the roll up strategy for that metric is Average. 

What you could do for this particular need is to create a new metric with a roll up strategy of Sum - then when you plot this new metric against the group, it will provide an aggregate value for each group as a sum. 

Are you aware of how to extend an OOTB certification?  

Regards,

Kishan

We don't have a way to represent this using bar charts, but you could report on each group of devices (group aggregation) using the following type of view:

And in the metric selection, add the Active Session Users to the list. 

This should generate a trend line for each group showing the aggregate active session user count for that group. Again not bar charts, but a trend for each group. 

The other option is to build an custom openAPI app that gets the aggregate data from openAPI and then creates some bar charts for presentation. 

Regards,
Kishan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

You wouldn't want to change the existing one. Leave that one alone and add a new one.

So you would perform a PUT against: http://DAHOST:8581/typecatalog/metricfamilies/extension/NormalizedRASActivityInfo

and send the following XML:

<DataModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace="http://im.ca.com/normalizer" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="IMDBCertificationFacet.xsd">
<Author>CA</Author>
<Version>1.6</Version>
<FacetType name="NormalizedRASActivityInfo" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.NormalizedFacetDescriptorImpl">
<FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item"/>
<AttributeGroup name="RemoteAccessActivityGroup" external="true" list="true">
<Attribute name="ActiveSessionUsersTotal" type="Double">
<Documentation>ActiveSessionUsersTotal</Documentation>
<Minimum>true</Minimum>
<Percentile>0</Percentile>
<Percentile2>0</Percentile2>
<Percentile3>0</Percentile3>
<Baseline>false</Baseline>
<Polled>true</Polled>
<Variance>false</Variance>
<RollupExpression/>
<Maximum>true</Maximum>
<ProjectionPercentile>0</ProjectionPercentile>
<RollupStrategy>Sum</RollupStrategy>
<StandardDeviation>false</StandardDeviation>
<IsDbColumn>true</IsDbColumn>
</Attribute>
</AttributeGroup>
</FacetType>
</DataModel>

This will create a new metric.

Now you will need to update the OOTB vendor cert so it maps the metric to this new metric. To do that perform a PUT against:http://DAHOST:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/extension/CiscoRASActivityMib

and send the following XML:

<DataModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace="http://im.ca.com/certifications/snmp" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="SNMPCertificationFacet.xsd">
<Author>CA</Author>
<Version>1.1</Version>
<FacetType name="CiscoRASActivityMib" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.CertificationFacetDescriptorImpl">
<FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item"/>
<Expressions>
<ExpressionGroup destCert="{http://im.ca.com/normalizer}NormalizedRASActivityInfo" name="CiscoRASActivityMibDS">
<Expression destAttr="ActiveSessionUsersTotal">crasNumUsers</Expression>
</ExpressionGroup>
</Expressions>
</FacetType>
</DataModel>

***Important:One thing to be aware with this solution is that you should only use this metric for a trend chart (like what you are looking to do) and it reporting on 5 min polled data. If the chart shows rolled up data for this new metric it will look incorrect; example when the hourly roll up takes place, it will sum all the 5 min polled data points, so in this case if you had 700 users connected from 7 am - 8 am, then your hourly roll up for the 7-8 am period would be 700*12 = 8400, which is incorrect. So please be aware that this metric should only be used for a trend chart using as polled (5 min) polled data.

Ah - yes you will get an aggregate value for each group as an average as the roll up strategy for that metric is Average. 

What you could do for this particular need is to create a new metric with a roll up strategy of Sum - then when you plot this new metric against the group, it will provide an aggregate value for each group as a sum. 

Are you aware of how to extend an OOTB certification?  

Regards,

Kishan

We don't have a way to represent this using bar charts, but you could report on each group of devices (group aggregation) using the following type of view:

And in the metric selection, add the Active Session Users to the list. 

This should generate a trend line for each group showing the aggregate active session user count for that group. Again not bar charts, but a trend for each group. 

The other option is to build an custom openAPI app that gets the aggregate data from openAPI and then creates some bar charts for presentation. 

Regards,
Kishan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

You wouldn't want to change the existing one. Leave that one alone and add a new one.

So you would perform a PUT against: http://DAHOST:8581/typecatalog/metricfamilies/extension/NormalizedRASActivityInfo

and send the following XML:

<DataModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace="http://im.ca.com/normalizer" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="IMDBCertificationFacet.xsd">
<Author>CA</Author>
<Version>1.6</Version>
<FacetType name="NormalizedRASActivityInfo" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.NormalizedFacetDescriptorImpl">
<FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item"/>
<AttributeGroup name="RemoteAccessActivityGroup" external="true" list="true">
<Attribute name="ActiveSessionUsersTotal" type="Double">
<Documentation>ActiveSessionUsersTotal</Documentation>
<Minimum>true</Minimum>
<Percentile>0</Percentile>
<Percentile2>0</Percentile2>
<Percentile3>0</Percentile3>
<Baseline>false</Baseline>
<Polled>true</Polled>
<Variance>false</Variance>
<RollupExpression/>
<Maximum>true</Maximum>
<ProjectionPercentile>0</ProjectionPercentile>
<RollupStrategy>Sum</RollupStrategy>
<StandardDeviation>false</StandardDeviation>
<IsDbColumn>true</IsDbColumn>
</Attribute>
</AttributeGroup>
</FacetType>
</DataModel>

This will create a new metric.

Now you will need to update the OOTB vendor cert so it maps the metric to this new metric. To do that perform a PUT against:http://DAHOST:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/extension/CiscoRASActivityMib

and send the following XML:

<DataModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace="http://im.ca.com/certifications/snmp" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="SNMPCertificationFacet.xsd">
<Author>CA</Author>
<Version>1.1</Version>
<FacetType name="CiscoRASActivityMib" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.CertificationFacetDescriptorImpl">
<FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item"/>
<Expressions>
<ExpressionGroup destCert="{http://im.ca.com/normalizer}NormalizedRASActivityInfo" name="CiscoRASActivityMibDS">
<Expression destAttr="ActiveSessionUsersTotal">crasNumUsers</Expression>
</ExpressionGroup>
</Expressions>
</FacetType>
</DataModel>

***Important:One thing to be aware with this solution is that you should only use this metric for a trend chart (like what you are looking to do) and it reporting on 5 min polled data. If the chart shows rolled up data for this new metric it will look incorrect; example when the hourly roll up takes place, it will sum all the 5 min polled data points, so in this case if you had 700 users connected from 7 am - 8 am, then your hourly roll up for the 7-8 am period would be 700*12 = 8400, which is incorrect. So please be aware that this metric should only be used for a trend chart using as polled (5 min) polled data.

Ah - yes you will get an aggregate value for each group as an average as the roll up strategy for that metric is Average. 

What you could do for this particular need is to create a new metric with a roll up strategy of Sum - then when you plot this new metric against the group, it will provide an aggregate value for each group as a sum. 

Are you aware of how to extend an OOTB certification?  

Regards,

Kishan

We don't have a way to represent this using bar charts, but you could report on each group of devices (group aggregation) using the following type of view:

And in the metric selection, add the Active Session Users to the list. 

This should generate a trend line for each group showing the aggregate active session user count for that group. Again not bar charts, but a trend for each group. 

The other option is to build an custom openAPI app that gets the aggregate data from openAPI and then creates some bar charts for presentation. 

Regards,
Kishan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan

The new metric calculates MAX, so what you could do is create this trend line for a 2 week period and make sure you report on the MAX metric and select the daily roll up - this will take the max value for user connections for each device in the group for the day (using the daily rolled up data) and then SUM them.

Again - this will show a trend for each day for each group and requires the new metric.

The other option is an openAPI app - in this case you would not need to add the new metric, you could use the existing metric.

What you can do is:

1. Using OpenAPI get the daily rolled up max values for each device in a group for a 2 week period
2. Then within the OpenAPI app code perform the summation of each corresponding timestamp from each device
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for groups that you need this for
4. Display this data

 Regards,
Kishan

You wouldn't want to change the existing one. Leave that one alone and add a new one.

So you would perform a PUT against: http://DAHOST:8581/typecatalog/metricfamilies/extension/NormalizedRASActivityInfo

and send the following XML:

<DataModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace="http://im.ca.com/normalizer" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="IMDBCertificationFacet.xsd">
<Author>CA</Author>
<Version>1.6</Version>
<FacetType name="NormalizedRASActivityInfo" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.NormalizedFacetDescriptorImpl">
<FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item"/>
<AttributeGroup name="RemoteAccessActivityGroup" external="true" list="true">
<Attribute name="ActiveSessionUsersTotal" type="Double">
<Documentation>ActiveSessionUsersTotal</Documentation>
<Minimum>true</Minimum>
<Percentile>0</Percentile>
<Percentile2>0</Percentile2>
<Percentile3>0</Percentile3>
<Baseline>false</Baseline>
<Polled>true</Polled>
<Variance>false</Variance>
<RollupExpression/>
<Maximum>true</Maximum>
<ProjectionPercentile>0</ProjectionPercentile>
<RollupStrategy>Sum</RollupStrategy>
<StandardDeviation>false</StandardDeviation>
<IsDbColumn>true</IsDbColumn>
</Attribute>
</AttributeGroup>
</FacetType>
</DataModel>

This will create a new metric.

Now you will need to update the OOTB vendor cert so it maps the metric to this new metric. To do that perform a PUT against:http://DAHOST:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/extension/CiscoRASActivityMib

and send the following XML:

<DataModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace="http://im.ca.com/certifications/snmp" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="SNMPCertificationFacet.xsd">
<Author>CA</Author>
<Version>1.1</Version>
<FacetType name="CiscoRASActivityMib" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.CertificationFacetDescriptorImpl">
<FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item"/>
<Expressions>
<ExpressionGroup destCert="{http://im.ca.com/normalizer}NormalizedRASActivityInfo" name="CiscoRASActivityMibDS">
<Expression destAttr="ActiveSessionUsersTotal">crasNumUsers</Expression>
</ExpressionGroup>
</Expressions>
</FacetType>
</DataModel>

***Important:One thing to be aware with this solution is that you should only use this metric for a trend chart (like what you are looking to do) and it reporting on 5 min polled data. If the chart shows rolled up data for this new metric it will look incorrect; example when the hourly roll up takes place, it will sum all the 5 min polled data points, so in this case if you had 700 users connected from 7 am - 8 am, then your hourly roll up for the 7-8 am period would be 700*12 = 8400, which is incorrect. So please be aware that this metric should only be used for a trend chart using as polled (5 min) polled data.

Ah - yes you will get an aggregate value for each group as an average as the roll up strategy for that metric is Average. 

What you could do for this particular need is to create a new metric with a roll up strategy of Sum - then when you plot this new metric against the group, it will provide an aggregate value for each group as a sum. 

Are you aware of how to extend an OOTB certification?  

Regards,

Kishan

We don't have a way to represent this using bar charts, but you could report on each group of devices (group aggregation) using the following type of view:

And in the metric selection, add the Active Session Users to the list. 

This should generate a trend line for each group showing the aggregate active session user count for that group. Again not bar charts, but a trend for each group. 

The other option is to build an custom openAPI app that gets the aggregate data from openAPI and then creates some bar charts for presentation. 

Regards,
Kishan

Hi Tao,

Do you have the Remote Access Activity metric family associated with you Cisco ASR devices? This metric family provides active session user count:

You can have a trend chart that plots this metric, you could even have a stacked chart showing active user counts by each cisco asr device.

Regards,
KIshan