Searching objects

This topic introduces the Search functionality of the BMC Client Management console . It describes how to create and apply a search and explains the presentation of the search results.

Related topics

Search-Syntax-and-Search-Requests

Update-Index

Cleaning-up-the-Search-Results

Quick search

To quickly access a specific device in your network the Quick Search functionality provides you with an easy to use syntax to find anything. You can search for any information that can be found in the device's identity, and its hardware or software inventory. This type of search is limited to devices, any other object can only be found via the Advanced Search .

  1. To search for devices enter the criteria in the text box above the table, for example, windows to find any device with a Windows operating system, or Linux for all Linux devices.
    • The search is not case sensitive, therefore WINDOWS, Windows and windows will all find the same devices.
    • You can use wildcard characters for the search, that is, 192.168.15. to find all devices of a specific subnet. The accepted wildcard characters are ? and {} .

  2. Click Find search.png next to the text box.
    The following table will then display all devices matching the search criteria with the following information:

    Parameter

    Description

    Rating

    Displays the matching percentage of the entered criteria with the search expression found on the device, for example, 100 for a full match (100%).

    Hits

    Displays how often the search expression was found for the device, for example, Hits: 4, indicates that the search expression was found 4 times in different fields of the device.

  3. Select a device.

The Result Details box below the list will now display the context in which the search criteria was found, with all occurrences of the criteria being highlighted per device.

The following operations are available for a device found by the search from this location:

  • Remote Control
  • Direct Access Tools
  • Audit Now
  • Inventory Summary
  • Deprecate Device
  • Agent Rollout
  • Purge
  • Merge with Device
  • Delete Device
  • Update Index
  • View Node

Advance search

The BCM database typically contains large numbers of objects. The Advanced Search functionality is designed to let you quickly locate and view information about a particular object, group or folder of objects that meet the search criteria you specify.

To execute a search define the following criteria:

Parameter

Description

Object

Select the type of the object to find from the list box. You can search for any main object type that exists in the database. If Device is selected as the type a new drop-down list box appears to the right, in which you can define if the search is to be executed in the Topology , in the Device Group Hierarchy , only for Objects Found (among the objects under the Lost and Found node) or for All objects in the database.

Criterion

Select in this list the object attribute on which the search is to be executed, for example, the object name or the object notes, and so on.

Operator

Select the operator for the search, possible values are Contains , Ends with , Equal to , Greater than , Greater than or equal , Less than , Less than or equal , Like (SQL) , Not equal to , Not like (SQL) , Starts with , Is Null and Is Not Null .

Value

Enter the value to search for into this text box or select it from the list box. Depending on which operator you chose you can also use the following wildcard characters in this text box:

  • % to indicate any number and type of character to return the maximum number of objects matching the operator criterion.
  • If the value to search for is of type Boolean, you need to enter 0 for is not equal to the criterion, and 1 for fulfils the criterion condition.

To execute the defined search click Find search.png to the right. The results of the search will be displayed in the lower half of the right console pane in the form of a list, which displays the icon and the location of the object found.

For example, the result for administrators lists all administrators found directly under the Administrators node and under the groups to which they are assigned. The result of a search for specific devices lists all devices found at their location within their groups and within their actual location in the topology, for example, the device group hierarchy: Device Groups/Bridge/KirkDevice Groups/Bridge/OhuraDevice Groups/Engine/ScottyDevice Groups/Commanders/Kirk

and the topology hierarchy: Topology/Enterprise/BridgeRelay1/Kirk Topology/Enterprise/EngineRelay1/Scotty Topology/Enterprise/BridgeRelay1/Kirk/Ohura

If no objects can be found for the defined criteria the value No Result will be displayed next to the button. If an error occurred during the search the message Search Failed will be displayed next to the Find button.

The following further operations are available for a device found by the search:

  • Find node
  • View Node
  • Remote control

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*