| CHAPTER 8 | RTView Data Sources |
RTView provides a variety of data sources that can be used to populate dashboards, generate reports and drive alerts. For ease of use and improved performance, RTView has been optimized to reduce the impact of data acquisition, federate information to interested clients and provide options specific to each data source.
RTView comes standard with XML, other data sources can be licensed individually. To find out which data sources are available in your installation, select Help>About RTView in either the Display Builder or the Display Viewer Application. For information on licensing additional data sources, including custom data sources, contact
Data sources supported by RTView can be event-driven in real-time (XML, JMS, JMX™ [notifications], StreamBase®, TIBCO Rendezvous® and TIBCO Hawk®), or persistent and require queries (SQL, OSIsoft® PI, IBM WebSphere® MQ and TIBCO® Enterprise Message Service™). RTView features a unique Attach to Data dialog for each data source to facilitate the acquisition of available data and the rapid configuration of dashboards, reports and alerts.
Some RTView data sources, including OSIsoft® PI and IBM WebSphere® MQ, are exclusive to monitoring, while others provide write-back facilities – known as commands. RTView commands allow applications to be built that can, for example, write to a database, send a JMS message, or call a JMX™ MBean operation.
The Data Sources section of the documentation provides the following sections with detailed information specific to each data source.
Note: This is an overview of all the information provided and some of sections described below do not apply to all data sources.
This section will help you determine system requirements and setup necessary for your particular data source. You must also review the main System Requirements section of this documentation.
Attach to Data
For each data source there is a different way to select the appropriate data to input to dashboard objects, alerts, analytic functions and reports. In the Display Builder, a unique dialog is provided for each data source that allows you to discover available data, as well as subscribe to or query a particular data value.
Define Command
Some data sources allow write-back facilities, known as commands. With commands it is possible to configure RTView to write to a data source based on user interaction or activation of alerts.
Substitutions
Many data sources have standard built-in substitutions that allow for the parameterization of described data values, which can be realized at run-time. This allows you to build open-ended dashboards in which data attachments and commands depend on values defined by user interaction. In this way, a single dashboard template can be reused to show data and execute commands from a number of different sources.
Application Options
In this section you will learn how to describe the connection, as well as other default attributes, of your particular data source. Options available via command line arguments are described in the section titled Command Line Options.
This section contains details about the deployment process specific to your data source. Please begin in the main Deployment section of this documentation for information on available options, the pros and cons of each, and how to choose and implement the optimal deployment.
Examples
Sections titled Quick Start, Demos, Simulators, or Sample Application will assist you in understanding how to best utilize RTView with your particular data source.
The Data Sources section contains the following:
| • | IBM WebSphere MQ Data Source |
| • | JMS Data Source |
| • | JMX Data Source |
| • | Round Robin Database Data Source |
| • | Round Robin Database Data Source |
| • | RTVAgent Data Source |
| • | RTV HTTP Data Source |
| • | RTV HTTP Rest Data Source |
| • | RTVPipe Data Source |
| • | SNMP Data Source |
| • | SQL Data Source |
| • | StreamBase Data Source |
| • | TIBCO EMS Administration Data Source |
| • | TIBCO Hawk Data Source |
| • | TIBCO Rendezvous Data Source |
| • | XML Data Source |