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PERFORMANCEVISOR ADMINISTRATION, USER AND INSTALLATION MANUAL

Version 5.0

November 22^nd, 2023

Table of Contents

 

1        Introduction.. 10

2        Architecture.. 16

3        User interface basics. 18

3.1          Splash screen and logging in... 18

3.2          The structure of UI interface.. 18

3.3          Menu system... 20

3.4          Using the display tabs. 25

3.5          On searching in general.. 26

3.6          Operations and location in the hierarchy.. 28

3.6.1      Location in the hierarchy. 28

3.6.2      Operations 29

3.7          Key bindings. 31

3.8          Table types on the UI. 33

4        Users and their settings. 35

4.1          Users and user groups. 36

4.2          User rights. 37

4.3          Preferences. 39

4.4          E-mail addresses. 44

5        Server configuration and management.. 47

5.1          Licences. 48

5.2          Groups. 49

5.2.1      High Availability performance 51

5.3          Server configuration... 51

5.4          Start / Stop / Status. 54

5.5          Server events. 55

5.6          Collector load... 59

5.7          Load late arrived results. 60

5.8          Measurement result storage options. 61

5.9          Server module operation cycles. 66

5.9.1      Application manager 66

5.9.2      Job queue 67

5.9.3      Data loader 67

5.9.4      Report engine 68

5.9.5      Scheduled reports 69

5.9.6      SOAP server 69

5.9.7      Threshold engine 69

5.9.8      Trap/Syslog receiver 70

5.9.9      Data compression. 70

5.9.10         Data migration. 71

5.9.11         Partition creation. 71

5.9.12         Measurement servers 71

5.9.13         Backup. 73

5.9.14         Automatic template reapply. 73

5.10       Collection cycle stats. 75

5.11       Tenant configuration... 76

5.12       Server watchdog... 78

5.13       Modul status. 78

5.14       Database usage.. 78

5.15       Data collection time stats. 79

6        Settings. 81

6.1          Object hierarchy.. 81

6.1.1      Non-virtual objects 81

6.1.2      Virtual objects 82

6.1.3      Separator texts 83

6.2          Site and equipment configuration... 83

6.2.1      Sites 84

6.2.2      Virtual sites 86

6.2.3      Equipments 88

6.2.4      Virtual equipment 106

6.2.5      Linked equipment 107

6.2.6      Public and private charts 108

6.3          SNMP discovery.. 116

6.4          Thresholds. 117

6.4.1      Types 118

6.4.2      Threshold traps 120

6.4.3      Threshold custom e-mail 122

6.4.4      Threshold configuration. 126

6.4.5      Creating thresholds from templates 135

6.4.6      Maintenance windows 139

6.4.7      Unknown level threshold wait 139

6.4.8      Mobile notification groups 140

6.4.9      Threshold custom commands 140

6.5          Bulk configurations. 143

6.5.1      Template based creation of multiple equipment 143

6.5.2      Bulk measurement discovery. 147

6.5.3      Bulk equipment update 151

6.5.4      Bulk deletion. 153

6.5.5      Search for unsuccessful measurements 156

6.5.6      Unsuccessful measurements report 158

6.5.7      Bulk activation or deletion. 158

6.5.8      Nagios config parser 159

6.5.9      Bulk relationship creation. 161

6.5.10         Bulk relationship deletion. 161

6.5.11         Bulk threshold update 162

6.6          Receiving SNMP Trap and Syslog... 163

6.6.1      Event definitions 163

6.6.2      Event configuration. 166

6.7          Scheduled configurations. 167

6.8          Report configuration... 168

6.8.1      Report variables 169

6.8.2      Report activation. 173

6.8.3      Report export and import 173

6.8.4      Creating report from on-demand report 174

6.8.5      Report views 176

6.8.6      Scheduled reports 184

6.8.7      Scheduled equipment send. 186

6.8.8      Report recalculation. 187

6.8.9      Scheduled alarm report 188

6.9          Customization... 188

6.9.1      Creating public / private menu items 188

6.9.2      Creating external links 189

6.9.3      User defined attributes 190

6.9.4      User defined relationships 193

6.9.5      Alarm sounds 194

6.10       Audit trail.. 194

6.11       Searching... 196

6.12       Windows AD synchronization... 198

6.13       Wizards. 199

6.13.1         Create a new site 200

6.13.2         Create a new equipment 200

6.13.3         Equipment parameter modification. 200

6.13.4         Equipment maintenance window.. 201

6.13.5         Create new measurements 201

6.13.6         Create new thresholds 202

6.13.7         Change threshold values 203

7        Templates. 204

7.1          Uploading MIBs. 204

7.1.1      Creating new measurement definitions from a MIB.. 204

7.2          Measurement definitions. 206

7.2.1      Viewing measurement definitions 206

7.2.2      SNMP expression syntax. 215

7.2.3      Non-SNMP expression syntax. 227

7.3          Business hours. 230

7.4          Time zones. 232

7.5          Equipment templates. 233

7.5.1      equipment 236

7.5.2      interface 241

7.5.3      other 243

7.5.4      agent 247

7.5.5      threshold. 249

7.5.6      Parameters of non-SNMP data collectors 252

7.6          Threshold templates. 253

7.7          Chart templates. 257

7.7.1      chart 258

7.7.2      member_group. 261

7.7.3      Example 264

7.8          Equipment display templates. 267

8        Schematic maps. 270

9        Using the charts. 271

9.1          Chart types. 271

9.2          Using the JavaScript charts. 272

9.2.1      Real-time monitoring 275

9.3          Using the image charts. 277

9.4          Chart settings browsing area.. 277

10      Viewing Alarms. 279

10.1       Overall view... 279

10.2       Navigation, filtering and viewing alarms. 281

10.2.1         Time interval 282

10.2.2         View.. 282

10.2.3         Filters 286

10.2.4         Unknown grouping 286

10.2.5         Graphical analysis of measurement values causing alarms 287

10.2.6         Excel files 287

10.3       Opening the alarm panel directly.. 289

10.4       Opening an SCCD incident.. 291

10.4.1         SCCD intergration configuration. 292

11      Viewing Measurements. 293

11.1       Using the Measurements menu.. 293

11.2       Object hierarchy.. 296

11.3       Viewing measurement data.. 297

11.3.1         Measurement graphs 300

11.4       Direct opening of a measurement page.. 301

11.5       Search menu.. 304

11.6       Saving as a submenu.. 304

11.7       Virtual equipment modification... 305

11.8       Threshold configuration using charts. 306

11.9       Save as virtual equipment.. 307

12      Viewing Reports. 308

12.1       Usage of the Calendar.. 309

12.2       Table and TopN reports. 310

12.3       Chart reports. 311

12.4       On-demand reports. 312

12.4.1         On-demand report types 312

12.4.2         On-demand report settings 313

12.4.3         Viewing the on-demand reports 317

13      Installation and operation.. 319

13.1       Installation... 319

13.1.1         Common prerequisites and comments 320

13.1.2         WEB authentication configuration. 322

13.1.3         Linux installation. 328

13.1.4         Windows installation. 341

13.1.5         Additional installation steps 342

13.2       Operation... 346

13.2.1         Configuration. 346

13.2.2         First execution. 359

13.2.3         Extend Icon Sets 359

13.2.4         Starting and stopping 359

13.2.5         Other commands 362

13.3       Grafana plugin... 364

13.3.1         Grafana installation and configuration. 365

13.3.2         PVSR plugin. 365

14      Appendix.. 369

14.1       Specifics of measurement server types. 369

14.1.1         New measurement server types and additional properties 369

14.1.2         SNMP measurement servers 369

14.1.3         ASCII measurement servers 382

14.1.4         Oracle measurement servers 385

14.1.5         MySQL measurement servers 402

14.1.6         Synthetic transaction monitoring servers 410

14.1.7         IPSec monitoring servers 429

14.1.8         QoS measurement servers 433

14.1.9         CiscoSAA measurement servers 437

14.1.10       CiscoPING measurement servers 445

14.1.11       Jaga measurement servers 448

14.1.12       Unix/Linux measurement servers 450

14.1.13       Netflow measurement servers 457

14.1.14       JMX measurement servers 467

14.1.15       EthernetOAM measurement servers 472

14.1.16       WS-Man measurement servers 481

14.1.17       VMware measurement servers 489

14.1.18       Microsoft SQL measurement servers 495

14.1.19       Application monitoring measurement servers 501

14.1.20       Microsoft Hyper-V measurement servers 509

14.1.21       Storage measurement servers 514

14.1.22       CallManager measurement servers 517

14.1.23       Proxy measurement servers 518

14.1.24       PostgreSQL measurement servers 523

14.1.25       OracleVM measurement servers 527

14.1.26       Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) measurement servers 530

14.1.27       Modbus measurement servers 531

14.1.28       REST measurement servers 532

14.1.29       MQTT measurement servers 539

14.1.30       Telemetry measurement servers 542

14.1.31       Snap7 measurement servers 546

14.2       SNMP MIBs. 550

14.2.1         PVSR Threshold Trap MIB.. 550