Important This documentation space contains information about PATROL Agents when deployed in a TrueSight Operations Management environment. If you are a BMC Helix Operations Management user, see PATROL Agent for BMC Helix Operations Management 23.4.

InfoBox programming guidelines

Follow these guidelines when planning and creating InfoBoxes.

 InfoBox command context of execution

InfoBox scripts execute in the context of an application or computer instance. To display a snap shot of a key parameter's current value, use the following format for the PSL get() command:

print(get("/<application class>/ <parameter name> /value"));

If an application class has a parameter called XYZparam, get("XYZparam/value"); returns the value of the parameter XYZparam.

Thus, you could use the following PSL script to display the value of the XYZparam parameter in an InfoBox:

print(get("XYZparam/value");

 Using the PATROL Agent namespace to get InfoBox data

Use the PSL get() function to access data stored in the PATROL Agent namespace. Therefore, InfoBox scripts often consist of a single lines of code. By evaluating and utilizing the available information in the PATROL Agent namespace, you can avoid executing redundant processing on demand.

 

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