OVPM Job

OVPM protocol is used to retrieve data from the HP OpenView Performance Manager.

Job Settings

In comparison to the Generic job settings, OVPM job has an additional job-specific parameter.

Max. serial errors threshold - defines the maximum amount of consecutive errors after which no more queries are sent by the database.

To configure an OVPM job, click Create OVPM configuration. Use the table below to set configuration parameters.

Field	Description
Name	Configuration name.
HTTP Pool	Data source.
Path	Relative path to OVPM CSV endpoint.
OVPM encoding	Character set that is used to parse the resulting data.
Interval	Data interval downloaded.
Query With Time	When executing the job, the server is set to the maximum time of the previous data.
Time Zone	Timezone in which the data is collected.
Max Rows Per Request	Maximum amount of rows retrieved.
Data Refresh Interval, seconds	OVPM sampling interval.
Error Threshold	Amount of error requests after which no more queries are sent.
Error Delay Interval, seconds	Interval during which the current entity is excluded from queries, in the case that there are previous errors.
Entity Group	List of hosts, entity groups created in Axibase Collector.
Batch Entities	Defines the number of entities grouped in one query.
Tag Columns	Columns containing tags.
Metrics	List of metrics that collected.
Put Type	Type of data: metric, property, or both.
Default Property Type	Default property type.
Property Type Column	Column containing the property types.
Property Keys Columns	Columns containing the property keys.
Property Values Columns	Columns containing the property values.