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Default annotation types

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OnCommandInsight provides some default annotation types. These annotations can be used to filter or group data and to filter data reporting.

You can associate assets with default annotation types such as the following:

  • Asset life cycle, such as birthday, sunset, or end of life

  • Location information about a device, such as data center, building, or floor

  • Classification of assets, such as by quality (tiers), by connected devices (switch level), or by service level

  • Status, such as hot (high utilization)

The following table lists the default annotation types. You can edit any of these annotation names to suit your needs.

Annotation types

Description

Type

Alias

User-friendly name for a resource.

Text

Birthday

Date when the device was or will be brought online.

Date

Building

Physical location of host, storage, switch, and tape resources.

List

City

Municipality location of host, storage, switch, and tape resources.

List

Compute Resource Group

Group assignment used by the Host and VM Filesystems data source.

List

Continent

Geographic location of host, storage, switch, and tape resources.

List

Country

National location of host, storage, switch, and tape resources.

List

Data Center

Physical location of the resource and is available for hosts, storage arrays, switches, and tapes.

List

Direct Attached

Indicates (Yes or No) if a storage resource is connected directly to hosts.

Boolean

End of Life

Date when a device will be taken offline, for example, if the lease expired or the hardware is being retired.

Date

Fabric Alias

User-friendly name for a fabric.

Text

Floor

Location of a device on a floor of a building. Can be set for hosts, storage arrays, switches, and tapes.

List

Hot

Devices already in heavy use on a regular basis or at the threshold of capacity.

Boolean

Note

Comments that you want associated with a resource.

Text

Rack

Rack in which the resource resides.

Text

Room

Room within a building or other location of host, storage, switch, and tape resources.

List

SAN

Logical partition of the network. Available on hosts, storage arrays, tapes, switches, and applications.

List

Service Level

A set of supported service levels that you can assign to resources. Provides an ordered options list for internal volumes, qtree, and volumes. Edit service levels to set performance policies for different levels.

List

State/Province

State or province in which the resource is located.

List

Sunset

Threshold set after which no new allocations can be made to that device. Useful for planned migrations and other pending network changes.

Date

Switch Level

Includes predefined options for setting up categories for switches. Typically, these designations remain for the life of the device, although you can edit them, if needed. Available only for switches.

List

Tier

Can be used to define different levels of service within your environment. Tiers can define the type of level, such as speed needed (for example, gold or silver). This feature is available only on internal volumes, qtrees, storage arrays, storage pools, and volumes.

List

Violation Severity

Rank (for example, major) of a violation (for example, missing host ports or missing redundancy), in a hierarchy of highest to lowest importance.

List

Note

Alias, Data Center, Hot, Service Level, Sunset, Switch Level, Service Level, Tier, and Violation Severity are system-level annotations, which you cannot delete or rename; you can change only their assigned values.