Refining the Host Management View
Refine your view by locating one or many hosts. You can filter by multiple host names, IP addresses, or any combination of the two. Using the
Advanced button on the
Host Management page, you can further refine your view with a number of additional parameters such as product, backup server type, host type and so on. See also
Advanced Search Examples.
Host Management Page-Level Search Criteria
The following rules apply to the page level search field:
• Partial entries are supported
Note: Primary IP address requires the full address and does not support a partial entry.
• Case insensitive
• Use quotes for multiple word searches
• Searching occurs on report name, object name, and descriptions
• Wildcard searches are implicitly supported: abc returns *abc*
• Use quotes for exact search (retain word order, reserve punctuation and all stop words such as _-., for, if, …)
• Search crawls the columns Host name and IP address
• Separate the list with commas, spaces or on separate lines. This allows you to easily cut and paste from an external source.
• Enter individual or multiple host names
• Enter individual or multiple IP addresses
• Enter any combination of host names and IP addresses
To search by hosts and IP addresses
Note: Primary IP address requires the full address and does not support a partial entry.
1. Select Admin > Hosts and Domains > Host Management.
3. Press Enter. The results are shown. A message is displayed to indicate the view has been filtered.
Advanced Search - Host Management
1. Click Advanced on the Host Management page to further filter the host results.
2. Select your customized scope to filter your results. Multi-select is allowed using Ctrl+click in the list boxes.
3. Click
Generate. The results are shown. A message is displayed to indicate the view has been filtered.
You can customize the results by selecting not only what you’d like in, but also what you’d like left out. For example, find hosts that have not been collected from a particular subsystem, such as Veritas NetBackup. You can also set no value for an attribute as part of the scope. For example, if all your hosts should have a value for a region attribute set, you can select “no value” for the region attribute to yield the list that you can then use to assign attributes. See
Group Hosts by Attributes.
For field descriptions, refer to
Host Scope Selector Settings.
Advanced Search Examples
The following advanced search examples illustrate how to set up the Advanced Search for each scenario. Set up the scope selector and generate the new display of hosts.
Find all hosts on with no attributes set
1. Click Advanced on the Host Management page. The Advanced Search is displayed.
2. Click Modify. The Report Scope Selector is displayed.
3. Click
Hosts.
4. Click
Attributes to expand the folder. Expand the relevant attribute. All the selections for the attribute are displayed. For each attribute, one option is
No Value Set.
5. Double-click the No Value Set or drag it to the In scope pane.
Find all hosts where the backup server type is set to EMC Avamar and it’s a Linux platform
1. Click Advanced on the Host Management page. The Advanced Search is displayed.
2. Select EMC Avamar Server in the Backup server type list box.
3. Enter
Linux in the
OS platform field.
Find all hosts where Backup Manager and Virtualization Manager were not collected
1. Click Advanced on the Host Management page. The Advanced Search is displayed.
2. Ctrl+click
Backup Manager and
Virtualization Manager in the
Product Group not collected list box.
Find all hosts with a custom attribute set for Business Unit = Global Services
1. Click Advanced on the Host Management page. The Advanced Search is displayed.
2. Click Modify. The Report Scope Selector is displayed.
3. Click Hosts.
4. Click Attributes to expand the folder.
5. Expand the Business Unit attribute.
6. Select
Global Services. Double-click or drag to the
In scope pane.
