Specifications

Content
type Description
Alerts Monitors incoming data and triggers notifications based on
rules.
Dashboards Collections of widgets available on the user's home page.
Lists Collections of configuration items (CIs), such as VMs, hosts,
datastores, clusters, and applications.
Queries Search terms to find configuration items.
Reports MS Excel or PDF output from canned reports or data export.
Resource
Containers
Used by the capacity planning module to define the supply of
resources.
Usage Pro-
files
Used by the capacity planning module to define the usage of
resources.
Templates Used by data export to define what properties of a configuration
item to export.
Trends Periodic searches and functions to track changes in a virtual
environment over time.
Each piece of content has the following attributes:
l Tags
l Type
l Owner
l Permissions
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Content types