Navigating with search
Search enables you to discover, navigate to, and perform operations on a number of elements within the Portal. All objects within the Inventory are discoverable by Search. Reports, templates and dashboards can be found and generated on-demand using Search. Data collectors and their policies can be quickly located, providing immediate access for analysis or updating. Users can also be located using Search.
Additional filtering is available on those items displayed in management grids.
To search the across the Portal
- Enter a value in the Search field. You can select a category, such as Data Collectors or Hosts, from the drop down menu to further narrow the scope of your results. As you type, the first 10 potential matches are displayed. These are string matches. You can also click All Results in the match list to go directly to the Search Results.
See “To Refine Your Search Results”.
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Reports and Dashboards | For reports and templates, search crawls the report/template name, short and long description. The search functionality allows you to search for the OpsCenter reports. Specify the OpsCenter report name in Search bar and press Enter key. The search result displays relevant IT Analytics reports. On the page, click the link in the column to navigate to the source report or template. You can edit or customize the report if applicable. Double-click a template to display the scope selector. This allows you to set the parameters before running it. Double-click a report or dashboard to run it. Click to toggle on the view panel to read a long description for a report or template. (This is only available for Backup Manager and Capacity Manager). |
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Inventory Objects | For Inventory objects, search crawls object name. For Hosts, search also crawls primary IP address. For VM Servers, search also crawls Cluster name. Note: In Search, Primary IP address requires the full address and does not support a partial entry. Search by, the page-level operation, supports a partial entry. On the page, if you locate the required inventory object, you can double click it and go directly to its specific Reports within the . |
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Data Collectors and Policies | For Data Collectors, search crawls the collector name. For collector policies, search crawls the policy name. Note: The policy name is system generated. The name is derived from a combination of vendor name and in most cases, a server IP address. On the page, if you locate the Data Collector or policy you're interested in, double click it to go directly to the page with the result selected. |
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Users | For Users, search crawls First Name, Last Name, Login name and email. A user can be active or inactive. On the page, if you locate the User you're interested in, double click it to go directly to the page with the result selected. |
Watch this video to know the functionality of Global Search in IT Analytics