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Where:
IDisaPrimarykey
NE_ID,NIC_IDandTRG_NE_IDareForeignkeys
Time Dimension
Thistableprovidesthetimedimension.Table 4‐17liststhecontentsoftheTimedimensiontable.
Where:
TIME_IDisaPrimarykey
Usage Metric
Thistableisamulti‐dimensionalOLAPfacttableforcapturingthedemandofDependency,Service,and
NetworkElement.Thegranularityofthedataisofasinglehour.Togetherwiththetimedimensionandthe
relatedentities,itisslicedanddicedasneeded.Table 4‐18liststhecontentsof
theUsagemetrictable.
MAC VARCHAR2(100) ForwardMACaddress
V_LAN NUMBER(10) VirtualLAN
TRG_NE_ID NUMBER(19) Forwardnetworkelement
Table 4-16. Switch_Address_Forwarding Table
Name Datatype Description
Table 4-17. Time Dimension Table
Name Datatype Description
TIME_ID NUMBER(19) Humanreadablenumber:yyyymmddhh
YEAR NUMBER(10) yyyy
QUARTER NUMBER(10) 1‐4
QUARTER_NAME VARCHAR2(50) Q1‐2008
MONTH NUMBER(10) 1‐12
MONTH_NAME VARCHAR2(50) January‐December
DAY_OF_MONTH NUMBER(10) 1‐31
DAY_OF_WEEK NUMBER(10) 1‐7
DAY_OF_WEEK_NAME VARCHAR2(50) Sunday‐Saturday
WEEK_OF_YEAR NUMBER(10) 1‐52
HOUR NUMBER(10) 0‐23
Table 4-18. Usage Metric Table
Name Datatype Description
ENTITY_ID NUMBER(19) Theentityoftheusagemetric.Thedatacontains
foreignkeystoallentitytypes:network_element,
service,anddependency.
TIME_ID NUMBER(19) Thetimedimensionid:numericvaluebuthuman
readable:yyyymmddhh.
BASELINE_TIME_ID NUMBER(19) Baselinetimeidcontainsthehourpartofthetime_id
(baselineisfor24hours).
VALUE NUMBER(19) Thenumberofnetworktransactionsinthe
giventime
(hourgranularity).
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