Ops Director Guide — Chapter 6

Configuring and Navigating the ANALYZE View

Use the ANALYZE view to examine key performance indicators of various system resources, such as disks, CPU, memory, network, databases, and servers.

This section describes the general mechanisms for configuring and navigating the ANALYZE view.

Performance metrics are displayed in the central panel of the ANALYZE view.

Use the date picker to select the date/time range to inspect. Use the resources panel to select which resources to examine.

Toggle between a normal or expanded view of the data charts by selecting the chart-only icon beside the date filters.

Select which resources to examine by defining corresponding filters in the resources panel. You can use the search bar to restrict the list of resources to only those matching your specified keywords. These features are described in Navigating and Filtering Ops Director Views.

Drill down for greater detail by selecting the detail icon at the far right side of any top-level section of the Overview page.

The DISKS DETAIL page, for example, offers greater detail of the disk operational parameters.

To return to the Overview page from a DISKS DETAIL page, click on the detail icon at the upper right-hand section of the resource graph on the Detail page.

You may export data from the charts presented in the ANALYZE view by clicking the Export icon in the upper right corner.

As the result, a zip file with all exported metrics from the charts will be downloaded to your computer. The following rules apply:

• The zip file contains one CSV (Comma Separated Values) file for each plot (such as data series) across all charts in the view.
• The CSV files are grouped into folders by resource type: Host, Database, Server, and Forest.
• Each CSV file corresponds to one exported metric and has two columns: one for the timestamp and another for the chart data.

Metrics exported for the Host resource type are described in the following sections:

• Disk Performance Data
• CPU Performance Data
• Memory Performance Data
• Network Performance Data

Thus, the Host folder in the zip file will contain CSV files that correspond to these metrics.

Metrics exported for the Database resource type are described in the section Database Performance Data.

Thus, the Database folder in the zip file will contain CSV files that correspond to these metrics.

Metrics exported for the Server resource type are described in the section Server Performance Data. Thus, the Server folder in the zip file will contain CSV files that correspond to these metrics.

Metrics exported for the Forest resource type are described in the following sections:

• Disk Performance Data,
• CPU Performance Data,
• Memory Performance Data,
• Network Performance Data.

Thus, the Forest folder in the zip file will contain CSV files that correspond to these metrics.

You may export metrics also from the second-level pages in the ANALYZE view:

• If you click the Export icon from the DISKS DETAIL page, the resulting zip file will contain only Host and Forest folders.
• If you click the Export icon from the CPU DETAIL page, the resulting zip file will contain only Host and Forest folders.
• If you click the Export icon from the MEMORY DETAIL page, the resulting zip file will contain only Host and Forest folders.
• If you click the Export icon from the SERVERS DETAIL page, the resulting zip file will contain only Server folder.
• If you click the Export icon from the NETWORK DETAIL page, the resulting zip file will contain only Host and Forest folders.
• If you click the Export icon from the DATABASES DETAIL page, the resulting zip file will contain only Database folder.

You may export metrics for selected resources and/or apply date filters:

• If you select some resources in the ALL RESOURCES tab of the left-hand navigation panel, click Apply to apply the new selection, and then click the Export icon, the resulting zip file will contain CSV files with content pertaining to the resources selected.
• If you select some resources in the RESOURCE GROUPS tab of the left-hand navigation panel, click Apply to apply the new selection, and then click the Export icon, the resulting zip file will contain CSV files with content pertaining to the resources selected.
• If you filter the ANALYZE view by selecting date/time range, click Apply to apply the new filtering, and then click the Export icon, the resulting zip file will contain CSV files with content pertaining to the resources that are visible with the applied filter.

You may then import the CSV files into other applications (such as Excel) for further processing or analysis.

Performance Charts by Resource

The ANALYZE view offers overview and detailed performance metrics in graph form for each resource in the cluster. In the Overview page, the lines on a graph represent an aggregate of the metrics for all of the cluster resources of that type. In each Detail page, the lines represent the metric for each specific resource in the cluster.

This section describes the Overview and Detail pages for the following resources:

• Disk Performance Data
• CPU Performance Data
• Memory Performance Data
• Server Performance Data
• Network Performance Data
• Database Performance Data