Viewing annotation details

The Annotation Details icon annotation_icon.gifis displayed as an additional graphing function only when the attribute has annotations for the selected time period. Annotation data is displayed for the latest 8 days only. Annotations are applicable only for monitors that are configured using BMC PATROL Agent version 9.5.00 or later.

Click the icon to access the Annotation Details page. This page displays information about the annotations. The page displays the time stamp of the annotation with a brief description about it. If more than one attribute is selected on the Attributes & Indicators tab, and if some attributes do not have annotations defined, the page also lists them. You can send this page via e-mail by clicking the Mail this Page icon Email_this_page_icon.gif.

Annotations on a graph are displayed when you select the Show Annotations check box on the Attributes & Indicators tab.

Annotation Details page
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In the Annotation Details column click the ellipses (...) if it is present. A new page opens and displays the complete annotation details. The annotation data is fetched from the server. However, it is fetched from the BMC PATROL Agent directly if the graph is plotted for a single event or a monitor that is configured to collect events using only BMC PATROL Agent version 9.5.

Example of setting an annotation

The following example shows how to set an annotation using the the Query Agent functionality present in Central Monitoring Administration. Type this command in the command input of the Query Agent dialog box and click the Submit button. An annotation on the selected BMC PATROL Agent is created.

annotate("/NT_MEMORY/NT_MEMORY/MEMmemAvailableBytes","%text","This is an annotation!");

Note

 If the BMC PATROL Agent has been configured for truncation, the mnemonic that is a part of the annotation is also considered for truncation. In the annotate("/NT_MEMORY/NT_MEMORY/MEMmemAvailableBytes","%text","This is an annotation!"); example, if the PATROL Agent has been configured to truncate up to 10 characters, the string that is displayed in the Operations Console is  "This". 

 

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