User`s guide

Section 1, Task 3: Create a Test PDB and Process, Reduce, and Report on Your Data
Create a test PDB and add one or more tables to it or create tables in it. Process your data into the table(s), reduce the data,
generate reports on the data, and view the reports.
Prerequisites
1. You have logged data for approximately six hours to one day, depending on the amount of data that you want to
collect.
2. You have determined which day is considered the start of the week at your site.
Since some data in IT Service Vision performance data bases is summarized and reported by week, you will need to
determine what weekday should be start-of-week for your data. At some sites, a week is defined to run
from Sunday
through Saturday; other sites define a week to run from Monday through Sunday; and so on. The default start-of-week is
Sunday.
3. You may want to check with other performance areas at your site to check that all areas are using the same day as the
start of the week so that all the reports are consistent.
Note:
When you are working with the test PDB, as you are in this task, it is convenient to do the actions interactively. Thus, this
task is described in terms of the IT Service Vision GUI.
When you are working with the production PDB, as you will be in Section 2, it is convenient to schedule the steps as a job in
background (using a task scheduler, such as cron on Unix or the System Agent on Windows). Thus, the corresponding task in
Section 2 will be described in terms of a background job and scheduled as a background job.
In order to have a background job to work with in Section 2, this task will save the background form of the interactive job. After
you save it, you can ignore it until Section 2 refers to it.
Actions
1. Create your test PDB.
a. Allocate
i. Invoke the Create PDB wizard.
From the main window of the IT Service Vision server interface, select
Administration -> Create PDB - Wizard
ii. Specify the physical name of your test PDB.
Type the physical name of your test PDB, without any reference to the server on which it will reside. We
suggest storing your test PDB in:
UNIX
/tmp/pdb-
name
WNT
C:\temp\pdb-
name
Where name is a unique name of your choosing (in the examples in this document, we will use a short