User`s guide

Introduction
This documentation contains setup instructions and information for the IT Service Vision server for Open Systems and Windows
NT supplied collectors.
Some of the instructions and information apply across all platforms, all collector facilities, and all data sources and collectors.
Some of the instructions and information apply only to a specific platform, facility, data source, or collector. The instructions
and information that differ are identified with icons.
These labels and icons will represent your platform for the rest of the document.
For many data sources, IT Service Vision supplies specific table definitions and staging software for
using the data with IT Service Vision. The collectors whose logs are supported this way are called
supplied (table definitions and staging code) collectors. For each of these supplied collectors, IT
Service Vision provides:
SAS code that stages the data (as staging data sets or DATA step views)
one or more table definitions that you can add to your performance data warehouse (PDB) and
several ways to add the table definition(s) to your PDB
a macro that invokes IT Service Vision
a macro that processes the staged data into the tables in your PDB
a macro that reduces the data in the PDB
macros that report on the data in the PDB
utility macros to manage the PDB.
Note: Some of these macros are used by more than one collector.
On the Open Systems platforms (IBM® AIX®, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX), IT Service Vision supplies table definitions and
staging code for data from the following data collectors:
Note: These labels and icons will represent your collector for this rest of the document. Also in the IT Service Vision
Showroom, there may be additional documentation on these collectors.