Creating customized calendars

Explains how to create customized calendars for scheduling data collection.

About this task

When creating a custom calendar for an SNMP data collection request, be aware that if you apply to a CME formula data collection request using Resource Manager, it has the opposite affect.

For example, if you create a calendar for a planned outage that collects data from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, if applied to the CME, it doesl not collect data from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday. The CME expresses outages in this way.

IBM recommends that you use the CME Permanent calendar for all Bulk file/CME formula data requests. The CME Permanent calendar is a 24 x 7 calendar that collects data every hour on a daily basis from 0:00 to 23:59 (12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.)

To create a custom calendar, follow these steps:

Procedure

  1. Select Add item from the Action menu.
  2. Select one of the following options from the menu:
    • Once item - to configure a one-time schedule.
    • Daily item - to configure daily schedules.
    • Weekly item - to configure weekly schedules.
    • Monthly item - to configure monthly schedules.

    These options are explained in the next sections.

    Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager DataMart supports Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). When creating a calendar using GMT timezones, use this table as a guide.
    Value Location
    -12 Eniwetok, Kwajalein
    -11 Midway Island, Samao
    -10 Hawaii
    -9 Alaska
    -8 Pacific Time (U.S. and Canada); Tijuana
    -7 Mountain Time (U.S. and Canada)
    -6 Central Time (U.S. and Canada)
    -5 Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)
    -4 Atlantic Time (U.S. and Canada)
    -3 Buenos Aires, Georgetown, Brasilia
    -2 Mid-Atlantic
    -1 Azores, Cape Verde
    +1 Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Belgrade, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, and so on.
    +2 Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Israel, and so on.
    +3 Baghdad, Kuwait, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nairobi, Tehran, and so on.
    +4 Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Baku, and Tbilisi
    +5 Ekaterinburg, Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent
    +6 Almaty, Dhaka, Colombo
    +7 Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta
    +8 Beijing, Chongging, Hong Kong, Urumqi, Perth, Singapore, Taipei
    +9 Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, Seoul, Yakutsk
    +10 Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Guam, Port Moresby, Hobart, Vladivostok
    +11 Magadan, Solomon Island, New Caledonia
    +12 Auckland, Wellington, Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Island