Exporting KPIs
You can schedule a one-time or periodic export of KPI data from the KPIs page. KPI data can be exported immediately, or you can schedule periodic exports to occur every fifteen minutes, hourly, daily, or weekly.
The KPI Export feature uses the Automated Performance Data Export (APDE) framework. See Files for more information on APDE generated files. Once the export task is complete the files can be located in the files management storage area which can be accessed by navigating from the main menu to . The files are available in the file management area until you manually delete it, or until the file is transferred to an alternate location using the Export Server feature. For more information about using Export Server, see Remote Servers.
One or more export files are created for every export task. Exports based on a filtered data set honor scope but not group. All groups are included in the export task. Each exported file contains a unique name with a suffix type of csv. By default the system uses gzip compression. The default compression type can be changed. See Remote Servers for more information.
- SCALAR - the report contains Non-Arrayed items; there is no index column.
- INDEXED - the report contains Arrayed items using a numerical index.
- <map_name> - the report contains Arrayed items using a common name mapped index.
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Index values can be either numeric or string. For CPU cores, naming the array indexes does not offer any significant value, but for other kinds of arrayed KPIs, the indexes may have a meaningful name (which are used in place of a numeric index.)Use this procedure to initiate or schedule a KPI data export task.
From the View the File List.
page, you can view a list of files available for download, including the file you exported during this procedure. For more information, seeYou cannot modify KPIs using this task unless you delete the KPI and create a new one.
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Only one export operation at a time is supported on a single server. If an export is in progress from another GUI session when you click Export, a message is displayed and the export does not start. You must wait until the other export is complete before you can begin your export.