Visualization data service settings

Use this page to configure the logging of historical data that is available in Extended Deployment reporting that can be used for purposes such as reporting on historical data, charge back, or capacity planning.

To view this administrative console page, click System Administration > Visualization Data Service.

If you are a user with either a monitor or an operator role, you can only view the visualization data service information. If you have a configurator role, you can change the configuration. If you have an administrator role, you have all the privileges for the visualization data service.

Enable log

Select to start logging historic data.

Timestamp format

Specifies a date and time pattern that is used when logging visualization data.

Use the SimpleDateFormat Java class to format your timestamp. For example, to output the 12.06.2006 5:26:30:978 PM PDT timestamp, use the following timestamp format value:

MM.dd.yyyy hh:mm:ss:SSS aaa z

For more information about the SimpleDateFormat Java class, see the API documentation.

If you are using IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, use a format that separates the date and time into different fields.

Maximum file size

Type a whole integer for the maximum log file size.

Maximum number of historical files

Specifies a whole integer for the maximum number of logs to generate.

File name

Specifies the path where the log files are generated.

Data log write interval

Specifies the time between data writes to the log files in seconds, minutes, hours or days. The data log write interval can be a whole number between 1 and 2147483647.

Data transformer action

Specifies how to handle extra data points that are received within the data log write interval.

For example, if your write interval is one minute, and data is received every 15 seconds, four data points are received in the interval. To throw away the first three data points, and only write the data point at the one minute interval to the log, select Skip. To average the four data points at the end of the interval, and write the average to the log, select Average.


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