Comments can be added or viewed by clicking a Comments button or pushpin. Comments apply to definitions (reports or policies, for example), and to workflow process results. You can add multiple comments to a component (a report or policy, for example), and you can add comments to comments, but you cannot modify or delete existing comments.
Comments are stored in or two entities: Comments and Local Comments, depending on whether or not Central Management is used. If no Central Manager is used, all comments are stored in the Comments entity.
In a Central Management environment, comments will be stored in one of the following entities, depending on whether they are local to one system, or global to the Central Management environment.
Comments Entities Contain comments that are stored on the Central Manager, and will be available within that environment, given the usual constraints regarding roles and permissions.
Local Comments Entities Are defined on a single unit, and remain local to that unit. Local Comments are not stored on the Central Manager.
To add or view comments, click the Comment or Add Comment button, or click the pushpin icon to open the User Comment panel.
To add comments:
Click the Add Comment button.
Type your comments in the text box.
Click the Apply button.
After you have added comments to an item, the Comments button or pushpin for the item will change to indicate that comments have been defined. For example: (compare with above).
In the Comments reporting domain, there are two entities. See the Overview above for a more detailed description of the distinction between these two types of entities.
The Local Comments entity is used in a Central Manager environment only. It contains comments that have been defined to remain local to the system on which they were defined. These are not stored on the Central Manager.
The Comments entity contains comments that are not defined to be local (see above). In a Central Manager environment, these comments are stored on the Central Manager.