{bb} Comments For Tests

[chris.ivey@verizon.com]

All,
        First,
I would like to say thanks to everyone for their amazing help.  Thanks
to you, I have been able to resolve all Big Brother issues, as well as
gotten ideas for new tests and such.  So now, I have a question about
overall functionality....

Does anyone know if there is a way to
add comments to a test, or to disable the color change for a specified
window?  Here is my situation - I have written scripts to monitor
4 of our applications (HP Openview, and Micromuse Netcool/Webtop/ISM).
 These applications go down every night on a schedule for maintenance/backups/etc.
 More than once, since I installed and configured the application,
we have been paged in the middle of the night when the application showed
down on BB, but when the maintenance window was active.  It would
be nice to be able to add comments to the output of the test... either
in this scenario (without hardcoding the comments into the script itself),
or in a situation where there is a warning or panic that we can not fix
until we get assistance from the vendor.  Anyone know if this is possible
as BB is today, or would this fall under the realm of a functionality update?

Speaking of updates, I keep seeing posts
that the free version of the software has not been updated in quite some
time... any word on when we might expect an update and what kind of stuff
we may see?

Chris Ivey

HP OpenView Certified Consultant - NNM 6.x on Unix  (0010-01-42093)
SkillDrill.com Certified Cold Fusion 4.5 Developer
MTS - Systems Engineer IV
Verizon Data Services, ENSS-West NMS Tools Group
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