Federating KPIs

KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) measure the health of a system according to predefined performance indicators. In the case of Configuration Manager, the KPIs that are supplied are policy compliance and authorization level. Configuration Manager federates two KPIs: policy compliance and authorization status. Note that the policy information that is federated by the policy adapter is raw data, and for policy KPIs, the information is modeled as a measurement of policy compliance for KPIs.

These KPIs are measured at two levels:

  • Composite CI (for example, host).
  • Business Service (aggregated on the configuration related to the Business Service). For details, see Identifying Business Service Views.

Configuration Manager federates its KPI data into these models:

Model Description
Policy compliance KPI for composite CI
  • data_origin—the source of the KPI (Configuration Manager)

  • description—a system-generated description that provides additional information about the KPI value
  • kpi_name—the name of the KPI ( policy_compliance)

  • kpi_status—the status of this KPI (OK, if the policy compliance for the composite CI is 100%; otherwise, Warning)

  • kpi_unit_of_measure—unit of measurement (%)

  • kpi_value—the percentage of policy compliance (for example, if a CI has three satisfied policies out of five, it is 60% compliant)

Policy compliance KPI for business service
  • data_origin—the source of the KPI (Configuration Manager)
  • description—a system-generated description that provides additional information about the KPI value

  • kpi_status—the status of this KPI (OK, if the policy compliance for the all the composite CIs in the business service is 100%; otherwise, Warning)
  • kpi_unit_of_measure—unit of measurement (%)

  • kpi_value—the percentage of policy compliance for CIs in the scope of the business service level (for example, if a business service has three compliant CIs out of five, it is 60% compliant)
Authorization status KPI for composite CI
  • data_origin—the source of the KPI (Configuration Manager)

  • description—a system-generated description that provides additional information about the KPI value

  • kpi_name—the name of the KPI (authorization_status)
  • kpi_status—the status of this KPI (OK, if the authorization status of the states for the composite CI is identical; otherwise, Warning)
  • kpi_value—the value of this KPI, as a percentage (0-not authorized; 100-authorized))
Authorization status KPI for business service
  • data_origin—the source of the KPI (Configuration Manager)
  • description—a system-generated description that provides additional information about the KPI value
  • kpi_status—the status of this KPI (OK, if the authorization status of the states for the all the composite CIs in the business service is identical; otherwise, Warning)

  • kpi_value—the value of this KPI, as a percentage (0-100)

If a CI is in the scope of multiple views, the most updated result of the policy compliance or authorization status is taken.

The following sections contain additional information about federating KPIs:

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