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Defining cubes
When you create a monitoring context, a cube is automatically created and associated with the new monitoring context. The cube defines how information collected by monitoring context instances is stored.
You need to create a new cube only if one of these conditions is true:
- You deleted a cube or removed a cube from its association with a monitoring context.
- You created a monitoring context directly in the XML document so that a cube was not automatically generated.
If create a cube:
- Click the Dimensional Model tab of the editor.
- Right-click the dimensional model in the model tree, and click New > Cube.
- In the Create New Cube window, type a name into the Name field and click OK.
- Click the Source cell and click Browse to associate a monitoring context with this cube, or New to create a new monitoring context.
To define a cube:
Procedure
- Click the Dimensional Model tab of the editor.
- Optional: Add a description to the cube. You can change the ID and name, and you can also change the monitoring context by clicking Source. The name of a cube cannot exceed 128 characters and these characters cannot include backslash (\), forward slash (/), colon (:), asterisk (*), question mark (?), single quotation mark ('), open angle bracket (<), close angle bracket (>), or pipe (|). These unsupported characters will be removed. The ID of a cube also cannot exceed 128 characters and must be unique within the monitor model. Each cube must be associated with a monitoring context.
What to do next
Cubes are optional. There can be no more than one cube per monitoring context.