Specifications

Chapter 16: Notes
Notes are a mechanism to document details of VMs, hosts, clusters, datastores,
and applications that cannot adequately be documented through other means. By
annotating a virtual object, you can create a journal of running commentary on the
life cycle of items in the virtual infrastructure. This is useful as it can be made to
capture the reason why something changed, as opposed to the what, when, and
how of changes. This sort of information is typically not provided in event logs or
other sources of management data.
Adding notes
To add a note, perform the following steps:
1. Select one or more objects on the search results page, the active list, or
configuration item view.
2. Click Add Note.
3. Specify the content, the permission, the tags and the expiry date of the note.
4. Click Save.
Viewing notes
To view existing notes, perform the following steps:
1. Select one or more objects on the search results page or the active list.
2. Click View Notes.
The results provide details about each note, when it was created, who created it,
and for which entity it applies. In addition, you can get a link to any of these notes
as well as provide any additional commentary on the existing notes.
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