Can I access the last part of the metric name in a typeview?

[Screen.Name]

I have EP Agent plugins that generate metrics with names like "EPAgent|Category:# of X used", EPAgent|Category:# of Y used" etc. I cannot predict the metric names. Looking back, this was stupid, and they should have been "EPAgent|Category|X:# used" etc. Had I done that the metric name would be a constant and the typeview could reference the LastSegmentPrefix to pick up the category name.

I want to be able to display a pane that has the metric name and the value. Is there a way to do that? At present the best I can do is to use a graph like: <Graph absolute-specifier="Category\:# of.* used"> and then mouseover to find the metric name. Can I get a list of metric names at the bottom of the graph as one would get in the Management Module Editor?

[Haruhiko Davis]

When using the graph, you have the option of showing the metric names by pulling on the yellow diamond symbol which controls the divider bar between the graph and the metric names.

Is this what you want to see?

[Guenter DI Grossberger]

Hi,

 

if you want to display something like:

The definition (business-segments.typeviewers.xml) is attached. See ComponentDefinitions "BT-table1", "BT-table2" and TypeViewer "bp-name".

 

So this might work (haven't tested it):

            <Column caution-threshold="20" content-type="NumericalValue" danger-threshold="50" relative-specifier="\|([^\|]*):# of .* used">

                <Title its:translate="yes"># used</Title>

            </Column>

 

Ciao,

Guenter

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[Screen.Name]

A relative-specifier would work to pull out the data, but not the metric name.

[Guenter DI Grossberger]

My bad! "NumericalValue" gives you the metric value. Try "Metric" instead! And you should also be able to use an absolute specifier. Possible values are:

<xs:simpleType name="TableColumnContentType">

  <xs:restriction base="xs:string">

  <xs:enumeration value="Host"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="Process"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="Agent"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="NumericalValue"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="AlertValue"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="MinValue"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="MaxValue"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="DataPointCount"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="StringValue"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="LastPrefixSegment"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="PrefixPattern"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="Metric"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="Timestamp"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="Description"/>

  <xs:enumeration value="Parameter"/>

  </xs:restriction>

  </xs:simpleType>

[Screen.Name]

Still not there...

 

                <Graph absolute-specifier="Category:# of .* used">

                        <Title># used</Title>

                </Graph>

 

gets me a graph with all of the metrics. But

 

                <MetricDataTable show-bottom-graph="false">

                        <Column content-type="Metric" absolute-specifier="Category:# of .* used">                                                                     

                                <Title>Category</Title>

                        </Column>

                        <Column content-type="NumericalValue" absolute-specifier="Category:# of .* used" sort="Ascending">

                                <Title># used</Title>

                        </Column>

                </MetricDataTable>

 

gets me a table with only a single row. I do get the appropriate metric name next to the metric, which is great!. But I've tried relative and absolute specifiers and many variants of this table and I never get more than one row.

[Guenter DI Grossberger]

I'm not sure that type viewers take variable metric names (the part after ':'). Typically they are fixed like this (and you will probably have to change your metric names to make it work):

 

<ComponentDefinition id="my-table">

  <MetricDataTable>

  <Column content-type="LastPrefixSegment" relative-width="3">

  <Title its:translate="yes">Steps</Title>

  </Column>

  <Column content-type="NumericalValue" relative-specifier="\|([^\|]*):Status Message Value">

  <Title its:translate="yes">Status Message Value</Title>

  </Column>

  <Column content-type="StringValue" relative-specifier="\|([^\|]*):Status Message">

  <Title its:translate="yes">Status Message</Title>

  </Column>

  <Column content-type="NumericalValue" relative-specifier="\|([^\|]*):Response Code">

  <Title its:translate="yes">Response Code</Title>

  </Column>

  </MetricDataTable>

</ComponentDefinition>

"Category|{category}: # used" would conform to the way metric names are generated by Java and .NET agents.

Ciao,

Guenter