Using Domain Categories

Domain categories are categories of tables and related objects that are organized logically to represent subsets of the IT resource measurements that are available from an adapter. This organization helps you create reports from one or more related aggregation tables of IT performance measurements.

Note: The domain categories that the Adapter Setup or Add Domain Category wizard displays are not necessarily all of the available domain categories for an adapter. You can view all of the domain categories for an adapter by opening the Folders tree view and expanding Products

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IT Template Tables. The template tables are the metadata used to create staged tables and are grouped by domain category. All of the domain categories for an adapter are in this list.

The domain categories that are associated with an adapter vary based on the requirements and capabilities of each adapter. If SAS IT Resource Management provides aggregation and information map jobs for a given adapter, then the Adapter Setup and Add Domain Category wizards enable you to select the domain categories that you want to use. If an adapter does not have aggregation and information map jobs available from the wizard, then the wizard creates only a staging job.

You can manage system performance by selecting the specific domain categories that are essential to the performance management and capacity planning processes for your enterprise. The amount of time that the Adapter Setup or Add Domain Category wizard takes to create the resulting jobs varies based on the number of staged tables, aggregation jobs and tables, information map jobs, and reporting jobs that are generated for the domain categories that you select.

Note: The Adapter Setup and Add Domain Category wizards create ETL jobs based on the domain categories that you select. However, the domain categories for some adapters are divided further into domain subcategories. In these cases, the jobs that are created are based on the domain subcategories instead. This prevents jobs from being too large. When working with the ETL jobs that the wizard creates, you might notice that the jobs are categorized into these subcategories.

For more information about the types of jobs that the Adapter Setup and Add Domain Category wizards create for each adapter and domain category, see the Appendix 4, “Jobs That the Adapter Setup and Add Domain Category Wizards Create for Domain Categories,” in the SAS IT Resource Management 3.5: Administrator’s Guide.