ASAP 3.0 Client Manual

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If there are syntax errors, the progress bar turns red and the source statement or token
in error is automatically selected. Error messages appear in red below the source text.
When you successfully compile entity definitions in the EDL environment, the progress
bar turns green, and the definitions are automatically added to your ASAP Client
environment. Once a compile completes, you can use the ASAP Client immediately to
analyze data for that entity.
If you set the enabled attribute to true for a compiled entity known to ASAP Server, and
your host session is enabled, the ASAP Client displays data for that entity. If the host
session is not enabled, and there is a Data statement for that entity in the EDL source,
data for that entity is available for analysis in the ASAP Client.
To learn to develop in EDL, experiment with Entity, Attribute, and Data statements
from the IDE window.
Successfully compiled entities appear with factory entities on the Entity Tab of the
ASAP Property sheet. Information about the compiled entity is also retained in the
ASAPn Custom.EDL file, so your entity and property settings are retained for the next
time you start the ASAP Client.
To clear all custom settings and non-factory entities, click the Clear Registry button on
the General property sheet of the ASAP Properties window. To delete an individual
entity, double-click it on the Entity sheet of the ASAP Properties window and then
select Delete Entity from the File menu.
Help Menu
Menu Item
Description
Contents
Displays the online help table of contents
EDL Overview
Displays the online help topic EDL Overview
Syntax
Displays low-level grammar for AsapEDLL.DLL
About
Displays the ASAP About box
EDL - ENTITY Statement
The ASAP EDL Entity statement lets you define entities and the properties associated
with an entity. Entity property definitions include information such as the command
used to retrieve statistics from the host for that entity.
In ASAP, an entity is a class of objects such as a CPU, Disk, Expand, or Application
domain. The purpose of the entity statement is to let HP system entities, customer
application domains, and third-party entities be defined without modifying ASAP
internally.
ENTITY entity-name
CI
<String>
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