Other Best Practices

Name Length

Attribute value lengths must not exceed 79 characters.

Performing a Try Script run for the Project

Execute a Try Script run to verify that the project is working before you create an SEP file.

Special Project Attributes

The monitoring-project attribute host can be accessed within BDL scripts using the following function call: AttributeGetString("host", sHost, sizeof(sHost));

Instead of host, an attribute called #MonitorHost may also be queried. Those two attributes are treated equally.

In Performance Explorer the value for this attribute is set using the following dialog: