Managing Hosts > Refining the Host Management View
  
Version 10.0.00
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.
2. Enter host names, IP addresses or any combination of the two into the Host Management search field. Refer to Host Management Page-Level Search Criteria rules.
3. Press Enter. The results are shown. A message is displayed to indicate the view has been filtered.
4. Review the results or select the relevant hosts to set or modify the Attributes. See also Setting Attributes on Hosts.
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.