Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Operations Manager i10.62

Use > Use the Operations Console > Performance Perspective > Managing Performance Dashboard > CI Comparison

CI Comparison

The CI Comparison feature enables users to compare metrics of different CIs that belong to similar CITs and evaluate the comparative performance of these CIs. You can draw graphs for visualizing the CI Comparison dashboards. The CI Comparison dashboards are mapped to the first parent CIT of the selected CIs. In the CI Comparison mode, that is, when you select two or more CIs in the View Explorer pane, you can view the CI Comparison dashboards. If you select a single CI, you are automatically switched to the normal mode. In the normal mode, you can view the Performance Dashboards that are created for the CI.

Consider an environment which contains several CIs that belong to similar CITs and you want to compare CIs that have performance issues. You can compare one of more metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, network and so on. The CI Comparison by metric enables you to drill down, investigate, and take actions to address the performance issues. You can also view the real-time and historical data for a CI comparison dashboard simultaneously. For more information, see Using Real-time and Historical Data Combined View.

Note: Instance Parameterization is supported for CI Comparison. However, Event Overlay is not supported.

How to create a CI Comparison dashboard

Click Workspaces > Performance Perspective.
In the View Explorer pane, select the View from the drop-down list. For example, you can select System_Infrastructure to view the CIs associated with this view.
In the View Explorer pane, use Ctrl key and select at least two CIs for which you want to create CI Comparison dashboard.
In the Performance pane, click Create New. The CI Comparison dashboard page appears.
In the Performance pane, click the title of the graph to edit. The following options are available:
- Maximize - To maximize and display only the graph.
- Edit - To edit the graph. You can use this option to define the metrics, axis, grid, and display styles.
- Duplicate - To create a duplicate of the graph.
- Share - To share the graph. For more information, see Sharing a Performance Dashboard.
- Add to Favorite - To add the graph to an existing Favorite or a new Favorite. For more information, see Adding and Using Favorites.
  
  Note The list of Favorites is not displayed in CI Comparison dashboard mode; only Standard Dashboards and Custom Dashboards are displayed. To view Favorites, select a CI in the View Explorer pane and click in the Performance pane.
Note: You can draw only one graph for each chart.
To specify the metrics, click Edit. In the metrics tab, specify the Data Source, Class Name, Metric Name, and Instance Name from the drop-down list.

Note: The Data Source, Class Name, and Metric Name drop-down lists display the data source, classes, and metrics from the first selected CI (Referred CI). However, the Instance Name drop-down list displays a consolidated list of instances from all the selected CIs.

Note: The query editor does not contain options to add metric, hide metric and so on.
In the Axis & Grid tab, you can you can define a host of attributes such as axis, grid, range, legend to customize the CI Comparison dashboard.

The preview of CI Comparison dashboard appears on top of the page.
Click Back to Dashboard.

The CI Comparison dashboard displays the comparative metric visualization of the selected CIs.
In the Selected CI pane, you can view the label color for the chosen CIs. You can select or deselect the CIs and visualize the dashboard for specific CIs.
To save the CI Comparison dashboard, click . Specify a name for the CI comparison dashboard and click Save.

How to edit CI Comparison dashboards

Follow these steps to edit an existing CI Comparison dashboard or add a new CI to the dashboard.

Click Workspaces > Performance Perspective.
In the View Explorer pane, select the View from the drop-down list. For example, you can select System_Infrastructure to view the CIs associated with this view.
In the View Explorer pane, use Ctrl key and select at least two CIs for which you want to view an existing CI Comparison dashboard. Depending on the CI selected, the CI Comparison dashboards are loaded.

Note You must select two or more CIs to view the CI comparison dashboards. If more than five CI Comparison dashboards are created, the dashboards are displayed in a drop-down list.
Choose the CI comparison dashboard from the drop-down list. The CI Comparison dashboard appears. If you want to select another CI Comparison dashboard, click and select the dashboard.
To add a CI to the CI Comparison dashboard, select the new CI in View Explorer pane.

In the Selected CI pane, the new CI is added to the existing list of CIs. The new CI is appended with a label color.
In the Selected CI pane, you can enable or disable by selecting or deselecting the CI. The CI comparison dashboard is updated accordingly. You can drill down to a specific CI by choosing the CI from the selected CIs.

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