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BVD Data Forwarding

The BVD Data Forwarding Rules manager enables you to define which OMi data should be forwarded to which BVD Connected Server. You can add tags to your data sources to create finer grained forwarding rules and to organize your data in BVD.

Note Before you can add BVD data forwarding rules, create a BVD Connected Server in

Administration > Setup and Maintenance > Connected Servers

Alternatively, click Connected Servers.

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Administration > Setup and Maintenance > BVD Data Forwarding

Alternatively, click BVD Data Forwarding.

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ClosedBVD as Target for Event Status, KPI Status and Performance Dashboard Data

By using the BVD Data Forwarding Rules manager, you can configure OMi to send the following data to a BVD Connected Server:

  • Event Status data: The event status data is collected from an OMi monitoring dashboard that you specify. You can choose any of your dashboards from the drop-down list displayed in the BVD Data Forwarding Rules manager. For more information on monitoring dashboards, see Monitoring Dashboards.
  • KPI Status data: The KPI status is collected from all CIs that are associated with a view and the KPI set that you specify. If you do not specify a KPI set, all KPIs of the chosen view are forwarded. Add new views by accessing Administration > RTSM Administration > Modeling > Modeling Studio.
  • Performance Dashboard data: The performance dashboard data is collected from your public favorites in OMi. To forward performance dashboard data, save your performance dashboard charts as favorites with the Share as Public option enabled. For more details, see Enable Performance Dashboard Data Forwarding.

For details on how to forward this data to BVD, see How to Create a BVD Data Forwarding Rule.

ClosedEnable Performance Dashboard Data Forwarding

To enable Performance Dashboard data forwarding to BVD, follow these steps:

  1. Save Charts as Favorites

    1. Access Workspaces > Operations Console > Performance Perspective.
    2. In the View Explorer, select a view and then the CI for which you want to enable data forwarding.
    3. In the Performance pane, choose a performance dashboard from the drop-down list.
    4. Click the title of the chart you want to save as favorite and click Add to Favorite.
    5. Choose to add the favorite to the default page, user-defined favorite page, or create a new user-defined favorite page. Click Save.
    6. Open the favorite in the Performance pane, access the menu and click Save. Check the Share as Public option and click Save.

ClosedBVD Data Channels for OMi Data

When you send OMi data to BVD by using forwarding rules, BVD creates data channels that uniquely identify the data you are sending.

Each data channel consists of tags and dimensions (dims). Tags are static labels and dimensions are names that are associated with a specific value. For more information, see the BVD Online Help.

The data channels are structured differently depending on the data you choose to forward:

Event Status
<tags connected server><tags forwarding rule><dim monitoring dashboard><dim widget label><dim widget type>
KPI Status
<tags connected server><tags forwarding rule><dim view name><dim CI name><dim KPI name>
Performance Dashboard
<tags connected server><tags forwarding rule><dim favorite name>

<tags connected server> are all tags that are specified when adding a BVD Connected Server.
<tags forwarding rule> are all tags that are specified when creating a BVD Data Forwarding Rule.

Tasks

ClosedHow to Create a BVD Data Forwarding Rule

  1. In the right pane, click Create. Alternatively, click New.

  2. In the General section, complete the following information:

    1. Enter a display name and (optional) a description for the forwarding rule.

    2. Optional. Enter a comma-separated list of tags.

      Data channels can be tagged to separate data from incoming streams and to create more specific data channels. For example, if you have separate OMi servers for different regions and you want separate dashboards for each region, you can add a tag that identifies the region in which this OMi server is located.

      The tags you enter will be added to the data channel after the tags specified for the BVD Connected Server. For details, see BVD Data Channels for OMi Data.

  3. In the Target BVD Server section, choose one or multiple Connected Servers from the drop-down list. This list shows all Connected Servers of the type BVD and Alias. If your BVD connection is not listed in the drop-down, access Administration > Setup and Maintenance > Connected Servers to ensure that the server connection was set up correctly.

  4. Optional. In the Event Status section, choose one or multiple monitoring dashboards from which you want to forward data to BVD.

    Caution: If the monitoring dashboard name is changed, the data channel is not updated. Instead, a new data channel with the changed monitoring dashboard name is created. Widgets that use the old data channel in BVD will not receive data from OMi anymore and need to be updated to the new data channel.

  5. Optional. In the KPI Status section, choose one or multiple views from which you want to forward KPI status data. Click Configure KPI next to the view name to choose specific KPIs. If no individual KPIs are selected, KPI status data will be forwarded for all CIs that are associated with the chosen view.

  6. Optional. In the Performance Dashboard Data section, choose one or multiple public favorites of your performance dashboards for which you want to forward data to BVD. For information on how to add performance dashboards as favorites, see Enable Performance Dashboard Data Forwarding.

  7. Optional. Clear the check box Activate after save if you want the status of the rule to be inactive after clicking Save. You can activate the rule at a later point in time.

  8. Click Save to save the BVD data forwarding rule.

Troubleshooting

ClosedError Handling

OMi creates a critical event if it is not possible to execute the forwarding rule. This event is refreshed every five minutes. If the issue was resolved and OMi is able to send data to BVD again, a normal event is created that closes the previous critical event.

Possible reasons for a failure to send the data to BVD are that the BVD server is down or that the wrong endpoint was specified.

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