The annotation feature enables you to define information that relates to objects in your environment and then track the objects based on the annotation.
For example, you could add building or floor number annotations to devices in your environment. Additionally, you might want to look at all devices in a specific data center or business entity and determine which business entity is using the most tier 1 storage. To do this, you assign a data center, business entity, or tier annotation to the device using the OnCommand Insight Client. Then, you can bring selected user-defined annotations from OnCommand Insight into Data Warehouse. You want to do this to see the annotation values assigned to objects appear in your custom reports.
For details about creating annotations in OnCommand Insight, see the OnCommand Insight Inventory User Guide for the Java UI.
Ensuring annotations entered in OnCommand Insight are included in Data Warehouse requires the following major processes:
To do this, you can manually run the OnCommand Insight server to calculate and place the transient data (such as annotation values) into database tables so that the Data Warehouse ETL process can read the data. The update of annotations data occurs automatically every fifteen minutes; however, you can force it to happen more frequently.
option or wait until the next scheduled transient data run process. When you force the update of annotations, you force theWhen you upgrade Data Warehouse, the annotations job runs automatically during the database restore process. The annotations job runs automatically also when JBoss starts up.