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  • 1.  How to use "Caption" and "Description" Fields ?

    Posted Oct 03, 2017 11:28 AM

    Good morning people,

     

    I am thinking of using the "Caption" and "Description" fields, but not any documentation that explains how these fields are filled out.

     

     

    I know I can do an update of these fields in the "cm_computer_system" table, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea.

     

    I checked in my environment, and no robot or device has these fields filled out.

     

    Does anyone know when these fields are filled out? or how can I use them?



  • 2.  Re: How to use "Caption" and "Description" Fields ?
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 03, 2017 10:05 PM

    You are correct. To edit the table manually NOT a good idea.

     

    For "Description", you will see SysDescription for devices discovered by SNMP

     

    Regards,

    Yu



  • 3.  Re: How to use "Caption" and "Description" Fields ?

    Posted Oct 04, 2017 08:40 AM

    Hi YU,

     

    What I need is a field to define whether the device is in production or not.

     

    For robots I have the user_tags, but for devices that are monitored by probes like snmpget, snmptd, snmpcollector etc ... they do not have the user_tags, so I need to find a field that I can use on all types of CIs and the ones I found are "Caption" and "Description", but I did not find any information on how those fields are populated.

     

    Thanks for your explanation.