About attributes
Attributes provide a way of defining a set of objects that share a certain characteristic. Attributes represent logical relationships between objects and their relevant characteristics. Typically, you'll set up attributes to aid in defining the scope of a report. For example, you might set up a "maintenance contract" attribute that you can associate with the hosts for which you have service coverage. Or, you might create an attribute to organize backup servers by geographical location so that the administrators responsible for the hosts at each corporate location can generate reports for their specific sites.
You can select hosts in bulk and assign or modify attributes associated with them. Use search or Advanced Filters to create a results set with the hosts you'd like to modify. For example, you can create a search query to find all Windows 2008 R2 systems as reported by NetBackup. When the search results are displayed, you can quickly apply a custom attribute such as patch applied.
See Manage attributes .
See Set attributes on hosts .
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Attributes can also be displayed as a column in the view.