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  3. Section XVI. System Administration
  4. Automating Host Group Management
  5. Categorize host operating systems by platform and version
  6. Categorize Host Operating Systems On Demand

Categorize Host Operating Systems On Demand

Use this utility to process hosts to categorize their operating systems without waiting until the next data collection cycle. This utility uses the regular expressions as described in

See Categorize host operating systems by platform and version.

Usage

execute server_group_package.updateExisting 
HostOsinfo(hostGroupId);

Where:

host_group_id: This is the numeric identifier of a host group.

See Identifying a host group ID.

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