Notes about records

Record creation result when data cannot be acquired

The following describes the record creation result when data to be stored in fields cannot be acquired.

• No record is created.

  No record is created in the following cases:

  • PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications cannot collect the performance data that is to be stored in the field defined as the ODBC key field.

  • PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications cannot collect the performance data that is to be stored in the field indicating Enterprise Applications' performance value.

  • PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications cannot collect the performance data of an SAP system.

• A record with null fields is created.

  A record with null fields is created in the following cases:

  • PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications failed the collection of character-type data.

  • PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications collected null character-type data.

• A record containing a field with the value -1 is created.

  If PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications fails the collection of numeric-type component data, a record containing a field with the value -1 is created.

• A record containing a field with the value Unknown is created.

  A record containing a field with the value Unknown is created in the following cases:

  • Field has a definition area in the data model, but the data collected by PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications is not included in that definition area.

  • PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications cannot collect data for a field that has a definition area in the data model.

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Notes about records of the PI record type

The following describes notes about records of the PI record type.

• Performance data that is collected

  PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications collects the average values of the last minute of performance data in all the performance data reported periodically in the SAP system and then stores that value in the record.

• Record creation results if the performance data remains the same in the SAP system

  PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications collects the most recent performance data reported in the SAP system and then stores that data in the record.

  For example, if the performance data remains the same in the SAP system as shown below, PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications stores the last performance data reported in the SAP system in the record.

  Table 10‒5: Performance data update status in the SAP system

  Time	Performance data update status
  10:00 10:01 10:02 10:03 10:04 10:05	Updated (performance data = 10.0) Not updated Not updated Not updated Not updated Not updated

In this situation, if PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications collects records at 10:05, the record that are created will be 10.0.

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