Metrics and Scorecards System Requirements

License Requirements

The Metrics Manager license is required to use the Metrics and Scorecards module.

Additional Components Required

In addition to the basic GE Digital APM system architecture, your system must also contain the following additional components:

A SQL Server Analysis Services Server machine that will host the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services software. The following versions of SQL Server Analysis Services are supported in this version of GE Digital APM:
- Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2012
- Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2014
If you are using an Oracle database, in order to process the Work History cube, you must install ODP.NET (Oracle Data Provider.NET), an Oracle Data Access Component, on the machine where the Work History cube is deployed.

System Architecture

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services provides the ability to analyze large amounts of data quickly and easily. Analysis Services provides the means to access warehouses of data by letting you create dimensional cubes from information in the database and dimension tables. Numeric measures can be summed into pre-aggregated values while cubes are being created. Cubes can contain data that is summarized, copied, or read directly from the data warehouse. Cubes, dimensions, and partitions can be processed (i.e., updated) to incorporate new or changed data from the data warehouse. Time, location, equipment type, or sizes are common dimensions against which measures are calculated and displayed in GE Digital APM. Note that the data warehouse can be created as a separate database, combining information from GE Digital APM and other data sources. Alternatively, dimensional cubes can be created by accessing the GE Digital APM database directly.

Together, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and the Metrics and Scorecards module functionality provide GE Digital APM users with the ability to analyze data in the GE Digital APM database using the features of Analysis Services through the GE Digital APM interface. To use the Metrics and Scorecards functionality, you must incorporate SQL Server Analysis Services into your GE Digital APM system.

If you choose to implement the Metrics and Scorecards module within your system, we recommend using a configuration in which the Analysis Server exists on a machine that is separate from the GE Digital APM Server. This deployment scenario most accurately reflects the GE Digital APM testing environment. The following illustration shows how the SQL Server Analysis Services Server connects to the basic GE Digital APM System architecture.

Metrics and Scorecard Requirements

Note: While this image depicts only a single, dedicated GE Digital APM Server, your implementation may contain one or more of these machines. The purpose of this image is to depict the interaction of the SQL Server Analysis Server with the basic GE Digital APM components, not to provide details on the basic components themselves. While your GE Digital APM system may contain multiple dedicatedGE Digital APM Servers, it will contain only a single SQL Server Analysis Server that all of those GE Digital APM Servers will access.

Deploying Metrics and Scorecards

After you have installed and configured the basic GE Digital APM system architecture, you will need to perform some configuration steps specifically for Metrics and Scorecards.

Supported Features in APM Now

In the APM Now environment, cube registration and modification is unavailable. All other standard GE Digital APM product features for this module are available.