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Prioritizing storage object events using annotations

You can create and apply annotation rules to storage objects so that you can identify and filter those objects based on the type of annotation applied and its priority.

  • Understanding more about annotations
    Understanding the concepts about annotations helps you to manage the events related to the storage objects in your environment.
  • Adding annotations dynamically
    When you create custom annotations, Unified Manager dynamically associates clusters, storage virtual machines (SVMs), and volumes with the annotations by using rules. These rules automatically assign the annotations to storage objects.
  • Adding values to annotations
    You can add values to annotations, and then associate storage objects with a particular annotation name-value pair. Adding values to annotations helps you to manage storage objects more effectively.
  • Deleting annotations
    You can delete custom annotations and their values when they are no longer required.
  • Viewing the annotation list and details
    You can view the list of annotations that are dynamically associated with clusters, volumes, and storage virtual machines (SVMs). You can also view details such as the description, created by, created date, values, rules, and the objects associated with the annotation.
  • Deleting values from annotations
    You can delete values associated with custom annotations when that value no longer applies to the annotation.
  • Creating annotation rules
    You can create annotation rules that Unified Manager uses to dynamically annotate storage objects such as volumes, clusters, or storage virtual machines (SVMs).
  • Adding annotations manually to individual storage objects
    You can manually annotate selected volumes, clusters, and SVMs without using annotation rules. You can annotate a single storage object or multiple storage objects, and specify the required name-value pair combination for the annotation.
  • Editing annotation rules
    You can edit annotation rules to modify the condition groups and conditions within the condition group to add annotations to or remove annotations from storage objects.
  • Configuring conditions for annotation rules
    You can configure one or more conditions to create annotation rules that Unified Manager applies on the storage objects. The storage objects that satisfy the annotation rule are annotated with the value specified in the rule.
  • Deleting annotation rules
    You can delete annotation rules from Unified Manager for DM Series when the rules are no longer required.
  • Reordering annotation rules
    You can change the order in which Unified Manager applies annotation rules to storage objects. Annotation rules are applied to storage objects sequentially based on their rank. When you configure an annotation rule, the rank is least. But you can change the rank of the annotation rule depending on your requirements.
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