Hardware device configuration data flow

The figure which follows shows how hardware device configuration data is collected and processed by the Network Performance Feature.

Figure 1. Process for hardware device configuration data
Process for hardwaredevice configuration data

The processing steps shown in the previous figure are:

1
Collect hardware configuration information.
2
Collect SMF data and update the NW_CONFIG_HARDWARE table.
3
Create reports.

The following sections describe each of these steps in detail.