User`s guide

that are to be exported; for example:
TCP_Retrans_Min_Val 1007f
These attribute ID numbers should match the attribute ID numbers in the actual exported statistics data set
and in your PDB’s data dictionary. Keep this window up so that you can compare attribute ID numbers
from these other sources in the next steps.
3. To display the attribute ID numbers that are in the exported statistics data set, allocate the statistics data
set library as you did in Section 1, Task 3: Create a Test PDB and Process, Reduce and Report on Your
Data. Then, make the PROGRAM EDITOR window the active window and issue the FSVIEW
SPECGWAY.STAT command.
The window displayed shows the data in the statistics data set. The column labeled TS is TimeStamp; the
column labeled MH is ModelHandle. The other columns contain the values of the model’s attributes at the
indicated time. The hexadecimal representation of the attribute ID number (with the first hex digit
translated to a letter or underscore) is used as the label (variable name) for the column. The first character
of the variable name is translated as follows:
0->_ 4->D 8->H C->L
1->A 5->E 9->I D->M
2->B 6->F A->J E->N
3->C 7->G B->K F->O
Thus, values for attribute ID number 65,663 (which is 0x1007f in hex) would appear in a column labeled
_001007F
.
These attribute ID numbers should match the attribute ID numbers in in your PDB’s data dictionary. Keep
this window up and go on to the next step to display the variable ID numbers (the IT Service Vision
version of the attribute ID numbers) in your PDB’s data dictionary.
4. To display the variable ID numbers for the corresponding IT Service Vision table, follow this path from
the IT Service Vision main window:
Administration -> Manage Tables -> select the table -> click right mouse button ->
Properties -> select a variable -> click right mouse button -> Properties -> Advanced
5. The IT Service Vision variable’s ID Number (which is in decimal in the Varidnum field) needs to match
the SPECTRUM attribute ID number (which is in hex). If it does not, you need to add the correct variable
definition to the IT Service Vision table. If this attribute has already been defined in another IT Service
Vision table, you can copy the variable definition.
To search all IT Service Vision supplied variables for one with this attribute ID number, follow this path
from the IT Service Vision main menu
Administration -> Explore Tables/Variables -> Collector: All -> Variables
Edit the Search field Clause" expression to select the variable ID number in which you are interested and
then select OK. For example, this expression:
tablenm=:"C" and varidnum = 01007fx
lists all variables with VARIDNUM (attribute ID number) of 0x01007f in all tables whose names start
with "C" (which all supplied SPECTRUM tables do).
If there is already at least one variable already defined in IT Service Vision for the attribute of
interest, you can copy the variable by following this path from the IT Service Vision main menu
Administration -> Manage Tables -> select the table to which you want to add
the variable -> click right mouse button -> List Variables -> Tools -> Copy