Domain Categories

About Domain Categories

Domain categories are categories of staged template tables and aggregation tables 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 template tables and aggregation tables of IT performance measurements.

Note: The domain categories that the Adapter Setup 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

SAS IT Resource Management

Adapters

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

Tip

The Add Domain Category wizard can be invoked if you want to add domain categories to an existing staging transformation. For more information, see About the Add Domain Category Wizard.

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 wizard enables 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 Adapter Setup wizard, then the wizard creates only a staging job. It does not enable you to select a domain category.

This capability helps you manage system performance by enabling you to select the specific domain categories that are essential to the performance management and capacity planning processes for your enterprise. The time that the Adapter Setup 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, for some adapters such as those based on event-type data, domain categories 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 Adapter Setup and Add Domain Category wizards create, 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 Jobs That the Adapter Setup and the Add Domain Category Wizards Create.