Support by Means of Supplied Table Definitions and Supplied Staging Code

For many data sources, IT Service Vision supplies specific table definitions and staging software for using the data with IT Service Vision. The collectors whose logs are supported this way are called supplied (table definitions and staging code) collectors. For each of these supplied collectors, IT Service Vision provides:

• SAS code that stages the data (as staging data sets or DATA step views)
  
  
• one or more table definitions that you can add to your performance data warehouse (PDB) and several ways to add the table definition(s) to your PDB
  
  
• a macro that invokes IT Service Vision
  
  
• a macro that processes the staged data into the tables in your PDB
  
  
• a macro that reduces the data in the PDB
  
  
• macros that report on the data in the PDB
  
  
• utility macros to manage the PDB.

Note: Some of these macros are used by more than one collector.