Domain Categories
About Domain Categories
Domain categories
are categories of template tables and aggregation tables that are
organized logically to represent subsets of the IT resource measurements
that are available from an adapter. This organization helps you create
reports from one or more related template tables and aggregation tables
of IT performance measurements.
Note: The domain categories that
the Adapter Setup wizard displays are not
necessarily all of the available domain categories for an adapter.
You can view all of the domain categories for an adapter by opening
the Folders tree view and expanding Products
SAS IT Resource ManagementAdapters<adapter name>IT Template Tables. The template
tables are grouped by domain category. All of the domain categories
for an adapter are in this list.
SAS IT Resource ManagementAdapters<adapter name>IT Template Tables. The template
tables are grouped by domain category. All of the domain categories
for an adapter are in this list.
The domain categories
that are associated with an adapter vary based on the requirements
and capabilities of each adapter. If SAS IT Resource Management provides
aggregation and information map jobs for a given adapter, then the Adapter
Setup wizard enables you to select the domain categories
that you want to use. If an adapter does not have aggregation and
information map jobs available from the Adapter Setup wizard,
then the wizard creates only a staging job and does not enable you
to select a domain category.
This capability helps
you manage system performance by enabling you to select the specific
domain categories that are essential to the performance management
and capacity planning processes for your enterprise. The time that
the Adapter Setup wizard takes to create
the resulting jobs varies based on the number of staged tables, aggregation
jobs and tables, information map jobs, and reporting jobs that are
generated for the domain categories that you select.
Note: TheAdapter Setup wizard
creates ETL jobs based on the domain categories that you select. However,
for some adapters such as those based on event-type data, domain categories
are divided further into domain subcategories. In these cases, the
jobs that are created are based on the domain subcategories instead.
This prevents jobs from being too large. When working with the ETL
jobs that the Adapter Setup wizard creates,
you might notice that the jobs are categorized into these subcategories.
For more information about the types of jobs that the Adapter
Setup wizard creates for each adapter and domain category,
see Jobs That the Adapter Setup Wizard Creates for Domain Categories.