I performed some testing on my side and could verify the following behavior:
. When you deploy a new service to the VSE, nothing gets updated in the VSE _METRICS_TXN_COUNT table.
. When you send a transaction to the VSM, and the VSM is new - there are no rows with this same VSM name, two rows will be created, one row will contain COUNTS_DATE=null and the other row will contain the date you are exercising that VSM.
. When you exercise a VSM on two different days, you will probably have 3 rows for that same service, one for each date and an additional row with COUNTS_DATE=null.
. In the tests I performed, this last row (COUNTS_DATE=null) contains the total hit count for that VSM.
The Server Console is documented and you can take the information from there to provide to others - by way of a screenshot, with DevTest 8.5, there is not an export option.
https://docops.ca.com/devtest-solutions/8-5/en/using/using-ca-service-virtualization/using-the-workstation-and-console-with-ca-service-virtualization/virtualizing-a-service/vse-metrics
With DevTest 10.1 you are able to access the VSE Metrics in DevTest Portal and export the metrics to a PDF file.
The database design is not part of the documented DEVTEST tool. We cannot prevent you using it but the database design may change from release to release.