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  2. IT Analytics Help
  3. Section XVI. System Administration
  4. Automating Host Group Management
  5. Categorize host operating systems by platform and version

Categorize host operating systems by platform and version

Host data can be collected from various IT Analytics products, such as Capacity Manager, Backup Manager, and Virtualization Manager. Data Collectors persist values as they are collected from the subsystems. For a host's operating system, subsystems supply values (operating system names) in a variety of formats that do not lend themselves to grouping hosts by OS for reports. For example, Red Hat Linux may be represented as RedHat Linux, rhel, or Red Hat Linux. In order to report on hosts in reasonable groupings, database processing references a set of default regular expressions to parse OS names to categorize the collected host OS data by platform and version.

The following sections provide the details for maintaining and customizing the default Host OS categorization:

  • See Use Regular Expressions to Override or Modify Default Host OS Categorization.

  • See Host OS Categorization Default Settings.

  • See Categorize Host Operating Systems On Demand.

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