
348 vFoglight
Administration and Configuration Guide
• thousand
• thousandth
• trillion
• trillionth
•year
For example, to set the unit of the derived metric to a number of days per month,
click the left Unit box, and select day from the list that appears, then click the
right Unit box and select month, as illustrated bellow.
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Define the data type of the derived metric.
A derived metric take over the form of a metric or an observation type. Click
Value Type and select one of the following values, as required:
• AgentStateObservation
• AlarmStateObservation
• CatalystPersistencePolicyRollupObservation
• HostTopCPUProcessObservation
• HostTopIOProcessObservation
• HostTopMemoryProcessObservation
• Metric
• RequestTraces
• SPIDefaultObservation
• StringListObservation
• StringObservation
Caution The derived metric data types that you define at metric creation time cannot
be changed.
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Optional. Add comments about the newly-created derived metric.
From here, you can proceed to “Triggering derived metrics” on page 348.
Triggering derived metrics
An instance of a derived metric is created when its definition is triggered. A derived
metric is configured to have one of the following triggers:
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