Searching for application information

You can search for information in the BMC Discovery datastore by clicking the Search Options icon. This displays a drop-down dialog where you can tailor your searches on all pages in BMC Discovery.

The following topics are covered in this section:

To run a basic application search

1. In the Search Options drop-down dialog, enter the keyword or text string you want to search for.
2. Choose Applications from the list.
3. To search for an entire attribute, select Exact Match.
4. To search for an entire word, select Word Match.
   The Show Data Completeness check box indicates whether or not Data Completeness is shown for each returned object. Select this check box if you need to view the data quality for all items.
5. Click Search.
   Summary details of objects matching your criteria are listed in the main frame. If your search returns too many matches, you can refine it by running an additional search on the items.

Related topics

• Searching for data