Searching for entities and metrics

BMC Helix Capacity Optimization has a built-in search engine that enables you to search for entities and metrics in an easy way.

The search engine can be accessed in two ways:

• Using the search box at the top right side of your screen.
• Clicking the Search tab on the Quick-analysis page.

You can conduct the search on all systems, business drivers, domains and works or on all data in BMC Helix Capacity Optimization, regardless of the domain you are performing the search from. For a basic search, type the relevant keywords in the form and click Search. All objects or time series that match all search terms are returned. 

Search form

Search results

You can also limit the search to specific BMC Helix Capacity Optimization objects such as systems using filter tags. For more information, see Search-syntax. 

As you type, the search box automatically suggests the available filters, as shown in the figure.

Search tips

Clicking on the name of an item in the list of results you can access its detail page for further investigation.

From the search result page, you can perform a quick analysis on selected time series clicking on the  icon; this will take you to the Quick analysis tab which displays charts and details for the selected time series. From there, you can go back to the search results accessing the Search tab and select more series to add to the analysis. For more information, see Quick-analysis.

To create an entity filter based on this search, click the Save as new entity filter button at the bottom of the search results page. For more information, see Managing-entity-filters.