User guide

Bulk adapter design files
Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager bulk adapters support bulk input files in the
CSV format. The DataStage server produces data in CSV format and uses JMS for
notification of inventory changes.
Each UBA technology pack provides at least one bulk adapter design file to define
the data format supported by that technology pack. Technology pack developers
implement bulk adapter design files using JavaScript
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. Some technology packs
provide several bulk adapter design files.
Typically, a bulk adapter design file can process both inventory and metrics data
from the same bulk input file, and provides a function that creates the bulk
collection formula names. When the inventory and metrics are located in separate
bulk input files (as is the case in the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM environment), a
technology pack developer implements several types of bulk adapter design files.
The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM LogToFile Technology Pack provides the UBA design
files.
UBA design files
UBA is a DataChannel application that interprets and parses bulk input files that
contain inventory and metrics data, or (as is the case in the Alcatel-Lucent 5620
SAM environment) metrics data only. A technology pack developer implements
UBA design files that tell the UBA application how to interpret and parse these
bulk input files.
The current version of the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM LogToFile Technology Pack
supports two UBA Bulk Collectors. The two main UBA design files are as follows:
v The SAMUBAAdaptor_polled.js file is used by the first UBA Bulk Collector and
handles most of the metrics.
v The SAMUBAAdaptor_accounting.js file is used by the second (accounting) UBA
Bulk Collector and handles the accounting metrics. These metrics are
service-oriented metrics.
You can find the UBA design files in the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM LogToFile
Technology Pack from the following location:
datachannel/scripts/alcatel_5620_sam_log2file
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