Getting metric information

Ops Center Analyzer REST API Reference Guide

Version

11.0.x

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-99ANA003-20

You can obtain information related to metrics, such as the display name and unit.

Execution permission

Admin, Modify

Request line

POST baseURL/v1/services/PerformanceData/actions/getMetricData/invoke

Request body

The structure of the request body and the object attributes are as follows:

Action

{
        "name":"...",
        "href":"...",
        "method":"...",
        "type":"...",
        "parameters":["...", ...]
}

Action (Type: Action)

Attribute	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the action.
href	string	URL for the action.
method	string	Name of the method.
type	string	Data format for the object.
parameters	anyType[]	A list of MetricDataParam objects necessary to execute an operation. For details, see the table below.

MetricDataParam

{
        "resourceType":"...",
        "componentType":"...",
        "priority":"..."
}

MetricDataParam (Type: MetricDataParam)

Attribute	Type	Description
resourceType	enum	Type of resource that the metric belongs to (For details about the valid values, see the table PerformanceResourceType in List of enumerators.)
componentType	enum	Type of component that the metric belongs to (For details about the valid values, see the table ComponentType in List of enumerators.)
priority	enum	Priority of the metric (For details about the valid values, see the table MetricPriorityType in List of enumerators.)

Attribute

Type

Description

resourceType

enum

Type of resource that the metric belongs to

(For details about the valid values, see the table PerformanceResourceType in List of enumerators.)

componentType

enum

Type of component that the metric belongs to

(For details about the valid values, see the table ComponentType in List of enumerators.)

priority

enum

Priority of the metric

(For details about the valid values, see the table MetricPriorityType in List of enumerators.)

Response body

The structure of the response body and the object attributes is as follows:

Job

{
        "instanceID":"...",
        "created":"...",
        "updated":"...",
        "completed":"...",
        "state":"...",
        "affectedResource":["...", ...],
        "result":["...", ...]
}

Job (Type: Job)

Attribute	Type	Description
instanceID	string	ID of the Instance.
created	string	Date the object is generated in "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.mmmTZD" format (e.g., 2017-08-25T20:07:39.472+09:00).
updated	string	Time the object is updated in "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.mmmTZD" format (e.g., 2017-08-25T20:07:39.472+09:00).
completed	string	Time the processing completed in "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.mmmTZD" format (e.g., 2017-08-25T20:07:39.472+09:00).
state	string	One of the following values is set: "failed": The operation failed. "success": The operation completed successfully.
affectedResource	string[]	A blank space is set.
result	anyType[]	A list of Collections objects. For details, see the table below.

Collections

{
        "data":["...", ...],
        "pagination":{
            "page":"...",
            "pageSize":"...",
            "numPages":"...",
            "totalCount":"..."
        },
        "count":"..."
}

Collections (Type: Collections)

Attribute	Type	Description
data	anyType[]	A list of MetricType objects. For details, see the table below.
pagination	Pagination	Page information. This parameter is displayed only when the relevant resource exists.
count	int	Number of data items that meet the conditions related to this query(API).

pagination (Type: Pagination)

Attribute	Type	Description
page	integer	Page.
pageSize	integer	Size of page.
numPages	integer	Number of pages.
totalCount	integer	Number of objects.

MetricType

{
        "metricType":"...",
        "metricName":"...",
        "displayOrder":"...",
        "unit":"...",
        "priority":"...",
        "resourceType":"...",
        "componentType":"...",
        "status":"...",
        "proportion":"..."
}

MetricType (Type: MetricType)

Attribute	Type	Description
metricType	enum	Type of the metric (For details about the valid values, see the table MetricType in List of enumerators.)
metricName	string	Name of the metric
displayOrder	int	Order of displaying metric
unit	string	Unit of the metric
priority	enum	Priority of the metric (For details about the valid values, see the table MetricPriorityType in List of enumerators.)
resourceType	enum	Type of resource that the metric belongs to (For details about the valid values, see the table PerformanceResourceType in List of enumerators.)
componentType	enum	Type of component that the metric belongs to (For details about the valid values, see the table ComponentType in List of enumerators.)
status	enum	Status of the performance information (For details about the valid values, see the table ElementStatusType in List of enumerators.)
proportion	boolean	Direction of a perfomrance value. If a warning or critical is generated when the the value goes up, "true" is set. If a warning or critical is generated when the value goes down , "false" is set.

Status codes

Status code	Reason phrase	Description
200	OK	Success.
400	Bad Request	The format of the request body is invalid.
401	Unauthorized	No login privilege.
403	Forbidden	No reference privilege.
412	Precondition Failed	The server is not available.
500	Internal Server Error	Server processing error.

Example code

[Request Header]
POST /Analytics/v1/services/PerformanceData/actions/getMetricData/invoke
Authorization: Basic c3lzdGVtOm1hbmFnZXI=
Host: localhost:22015
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

[Request Body]
{
  "name": "getMetricData",
  "href": "http://localhost:22015/Analytics/v1/services/PerformanceData/actions/getMetricData/invoke",
  "method": "POST",
  "type": "application/json",
  "parameters":[{
    "resourceType":"ESX_VM",
    "componentType":"VIRTUAL_MACHINE",
    "priority":"Basic",
    "metricType":"ESX_VM_VM_CPUREADY"
  }]
}

[Response Header]
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:56:01 GMT
Server: Cosminexus HTTP Server
Cache-Control: no-cache
WWW-Authenticate: HSSO 8113b75377dac59b7c48ee2b947b20d3bbc11f_YXZvNFIMehp3UB4jbmVyPGUgT3Q=_V0810
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/json


[Response Body]
{
  "instanceID" : "df788f95-e53f-48e1-b666-8c6e23fe78c4",
  "created" : "2016-08-12T02:56:01.736+09:00",
  "updated" : "2016-08-12T02:56:01.737+09:00",
  "completed" : "2016-08-12T02:56:01.737+09:00",
  "state" : "success",
  "affectedResource" : [ ],
  "result" : [ {
    "data" : [ {
      "metricType" : "ESX_VM_VM_CPUREADY",
      "metricName" : "CPU Ready (VMware Virtual Machine)",
      "displayOrder" : 41700,
      "unit" : "msec",
      "priority" : "Basic",
      "resourceType" : "ESX_VM",
      "componentType" : "VIRTUAL_MACHINE",
      "status" : "Unknown",
      "proportion" : false
    } ]
  } ]
}