Note:
This section is relevant only to those users connecting SiteScope 11.00 or later with Operations Manager (HPOM) or Operations Management in BSM version 9.00 or later.
Only advanced users with a thorough knowledge of creating and updating indicators and assignment mappings should edit settings in the Metrics and Indicators tab.
SiteScope monitor metrics are mapped to health indicators (HIs) and event type indicators (ETIs), which are stored and managed in the Indicator Assignments repository in SAM Administration. Indicators provide a more detailed view of the health of a configuration item (CI). For details on understanding indicators, see Configuring KPIs and HIs - Overview.
The Indicator Assignments repository has the following benefits:
Centralized management of metric-to-indicator assignments makes it easier to manage large numbers of SiteScopes and monitors. The Indicator Assignments repository is available for editing in the Metrics and Indicators tab.
Metrics are assigned from different SiteScope monitors to indicators, per monitor type. You can create, edit, and delete assignments for specific monitor types.
Metrics can be assigned to new monitors. This is useful where:
The version of SiteScope contains a monitor type that is unavailable in the version of BSM being used.
Indicators need to be configured for synthetic monitors and groups created by the EMS integration monitors (by adding new monitors to the repository).
If new indicator assignments are added or existing assignments are modified in the Indicator Assignments repository, these changes can be published to all SiteScopes that are connected to BSM. This ensures that new monitor instances created in SiteScope have indicators according to the latest centralized assignments.
The central repository ensures compatibility with earlier versions of SiteScope by mapping metrics from earlier SiteScopes to indicators. When a hard synchronization is performed on SiteScope, all the latest mappings are downloaded from BSM.
In cases where indicator assignments have been modified on a local SiteScope server (mappings for monitor metrics were changed), these assignments are not overridden by the centralized assignments when publishing assignment changes to SiteScope.
For task details, see How to Create and Manage Indicator Assignments.
For user interface details, see Metrics and Indicators Tab.