User`s guide

Cabletron SPECTRUM Appendix 6: Mapping SPECTRUM Data Types to an IT Service
Vision PDB
To read SPECTRUM data into an IT Service Vision PDB, it is necessary to tell SPECTRUM to write out the same data that you
tell the IT Service Vision server to read in. If what is written does not correspond to what is read, the result is generally that
%CSPROCES reads no data (or a smaller amount of data than you expected) into your PDB.
In the information that the %CSPROCES macro writes to the SAS log, there are messages indicating the number of observations
read at various stages by the %CSPROCES macro and, at the end, a report on the number of observations kept and the date
range of the data.
The following is a list of problems that may be indicated in the log, with an explanation of what they mean (and what to do about
them):
The message "NOTE: CSIIPDI not initialized" appears.
This message means that some variables that are defined in the IT Service Vision table are not being logged and exported
(as attributes) by SPECTRUM.
You will need to edit the SPECTRUM model type to enable logging of these attributes and re-export the data. To edit the
SPECTRUM model type, see Cabletron SPECTRUM Appendix 5: Editing Model Types for SPECTRUM
.
The message "ERROR: Negative value for counter CSIIPFD=-873173447 is invalid" appears.
Messages like this refer to data in the form of counters (that is, monotonically increasing values). Certain releases of
SPECTRUM log negative numbers when the values in the counters become very large. See
!sasroot/misc/cpe/cscsivew for a workaround until Cabletron fixes this problem.
The date range of the data that were read is not correct.
At the end of the messages that %CSPROCES writes to the SAS log, there is a report on the number of observations read
in this %CSPROCES run and the date range of the data that %CSPROCES kept. If the date range is not what you expect,
you may have exported the wrong range.
You can check the date range in the input (specgway.stat) data set by typing this command on the PROGRAM
EDITOR window’s command line after %CSPROCES completes:
fsview specgway.stat
and pressing ENTER or RETURN. Then, at the FSVIEW window’s command line, type (do not forget the dot "." after
datetime):
format ts "datetime."
and press ENTER or RETURN.
The variable named TS contains the date/time stamp of each observation. These date/time stamps should correspond to
the date range that you specified when you exported the data. See Section 1, Task 1: Start the IT Service Vision Server
Software, Action 2.b.viii in this chapter to check the Export Range on the Export Definition Description that you used to
export the data.
The data were read but no observations were kept.
If the SAS log shows that observations were read by %CSPROCES, for example:
NOTE: Processing RECNUM=1000 MACHINE=Rtr1 DATETIME=15JUN96:01:09:02
but the report at the end of the log shows that no observations were kept, for example: