Creating subcomponents for an application

When you create and associate storage resources with subcomponents, you can monitor the capacity, space usage, and performance of each of the subcomponents.

About this task

To create the filters for the subcomponents, you must identify the storage resources that the subcomponents use.

In this scenario, you want to add the following subcomponents to the application for the Book Sales DB:
  • Wholesale Transactions. Volumes with names that begin with bksales_ws are used to store data for wholesale transactions.
  • Retail Transactions. Volumes with names that begin with bksales_rt are used to store data for retail transactions.
  • Online Transactions. Volumes with names that begin with bksales_ol are used to store data for online transactions.

Procedure

For each subcomponent that you want to create, complete these steps:

  1. From the Groups menu, click Applications.
  2. Right-click the application, and click View Details.
  3. In the navigation pane, click Subomponents and then click Create Subcomponent.
  4. Enter the information about the subcomponent that you want to create, and click Create.
  5. Right-click the subcomponent that you created, and click View Details.
  6. In the navigation pane, click Filters and then click A selection of volumes that match a pattern.
  7. Type the pattern that matches the names of the volumes that the subcomponent uses for storage.
    For example, for the Wholesale Transactions subcomponent, you type bksales_ws*.
  8. Click Belonging to and then click Storage System.
  9. Type the name of the storage system or the pattern that matches the name of the storage system.
  10. To check that the filter retrieves the correct storage resources, click Preview.
    If you want to change the filter, click Close and make your changes.
  11. Click Save.

Results

You can now view information about the capacity, space usage, and performance of the storage resources for each of the subcomponents on the Overview page for the subcomponent.