Section 1, Task 2: Start Your Data Collection software Action 1: Start the logging and collector software, if it is not already running.

To start collecting data for IT Service Vision with SunNet Manager, set up SunNet Manager to log the data of interest to disk at some regular interval (usually 15-60 minutes) by using one of the schema files supplied with IT Service Vision. Although in theory SunNet Manager will continue to log data until your disk space is totally consumed, we recommend that the log file be moved out of the path of SunNet Manager, processed into your PDB, and then archived to tape fairly frequently (daily).

If none of the schema files supplied with IT Service Vision will work for your network, you may use any valid SunNet Manager schema file, but you will need to create IT Service Vision dictionary entries from this schema file before reading the data into your PDB. Instructions for defining IT Service Vision tables from schema files appear in SunNet Manager and Enterprise Manager Appendix 2: Defining Tables from Your Own Schema Files.