Data Mapping cfxdm - dm:fixcolumns

dm: fixcolumns: This dm function allows the user to remove the special characters like @,. (dot) etc from a column name. If there is a special character in between a column name, it replaces it with an underscore (ex: First. Last to First_Last)

dm: fixcolumns syntax: It doesn't require any arguments. Just ingest the data into this tag/function using a pipe (-->)

Example 1:

Default dm: fixcolumns functionality is captured in this example.

Step 1: Create an empty dm_fixcolumns_example_1 using AIOps studio as shown in the below screenshot.

Empty pipeline

Step 2: Add the following pipeline code/commands into the above-created pipeline as shown in the below screenshot:

You can copy the below code into your pipeline and execute that in your environment. ##### This pipeline creates a set of records/dateset details coming from a vCenter ##### environment. This dataset includes datastore details, Folder name, guest_hostname, ##### guest_ip_address. ###### This pipeline uses dm fixcolumns to fix the column names that has special ###### characters and replace with '_' character for other operations. @dm:empty --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'CFX-QA-Store-NFS-qnap' & Folder = '' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'test2.oia.cloudfabrix.com' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.134.17' & `VM Name` = 'test1' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'CFX-QA-Store-NFS-qnap' & Folder = 'User VMs' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'qa.oia.cloudfabrix.com' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.122.13' & `VM Name` = 'test2' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'ENG_ISOs,netapp-qa-nfs' & Folder = 'User VMs,Ravi-Pisupati,TestVMs' & guest_full_name = 'Ubuntu Linux (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'ubuntuqa' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.102.172' & `VM Name` = 'test3' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'datastore1 (6)' & Folder = 'Ravi-Pisupati' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'elkstack' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.121.218' & `VM Name` = 'test4' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'datastore1-198' & Folder = '' & guest_full_name = 'Microsoft Windows Server' & guest_hostname = 'spdnode.adwinstack' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.132.4' & `VM Name` = 'test5' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'netapp-dev-nfs-01' & Folder = 'User VMs,Ravi-Pisupati,TestVMs' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'localhost' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.103.115' & `VM Name` = 'test6' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'netapp-dev-nfs-01' & Folder = 'User VMs,Ravi-Pisupati,TestVMs' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'localhost' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.103.115' & `VM Name` = 'test7' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'netapp-dev-nfs-02' & Folder = 'CFX-Drama,Capri-Demo' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'democloudp' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.122.212' & `VM Name` = 'test8' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'netapp-dev-nfs-02' & Folder = 'CFX-Drama,Capri-Demo' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'ravip-v201-platform' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.122.216' & `VM Name` = 'test9' --> @dm:addrow datastore.1 = 'netapp-dev-nfs-02' & Folder = 'CFX-Drama,Capri-Demo' & guest_full_name = 'CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)' & guest_hostname = 'cfxautomatesvc' & guest_ip_address = '10.95.125.116' & `VM Name` = 'test10' --> @dm:fixcolumns

Pipeline code added to empty pipeline

Step 3: Click verify button to make sure syntax and pipeline code is correct (as shown below)

Pipeline code is verified using 'Verify' button as shown above.

Step 4: Click execute button and execute the pipeline. RDA will execute the pipeline without any errors (as shown below).

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Step 5: RDA uses the dm fixcolumns function to replace special characters (dot, space, etc) with underscore character as shown in the following screenshot.

VM Name and datastore column names are replacd with '_' character as shown above using fixcolumns

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