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  5. Advanced filtering examples

Advanced filtering examples

Example 1

Let us say you want to find all NetBackup Primary Servers to edit a property or assign an attribute.

  1. Choose the Default Hierarchy (object, subsystem) in the Inventory.

    See Hierarchy toolbar to organize your data.

  2. Select Backup Servers in the Hierarchy Panel.

  3. Click Advanced.

  4. Select Backup Server Type.

  5. Set the operator to equals and enter NetBackup Primary Server.

If you want to see the Backup Server Type Name column in your grid display, you must explicitly add it.

See Select columns on management pages.

Example 2

Let's say you want to find all hosts on a LINUX platform that were created after July 20, 2017.

  1. Choose the Default Hierarchy (object, subsystem) in the Inventory.

    See Hierarchy toolbar to organize your data.

  2. Select Hosts in the Hierarchy panel.

  3. Click Advanced and the selections should be:

If you want to see the OS Version and Creation Date as columns in your grid display, you must explicitly add them.

See Select columns on management pages.

Example 3

Advanced Filtering is useful for discovering what's been left out of a criteria set. For example, find backup servers that have not been assigned to a Business Unit. Note, Business Unit would be an attribute you must assign to an Inventory Object.

  1. Choose the Default Hierarchy (object, subsystem) in the Inventory.

  2. Select Backup Servers in the Hierarchy panel.

  3. Click Advanced and the selection should be:

You set the value as blank, but you must select an operator. In the example, the operator is equals.

If you want to see the Business Unit as a column in your grid display, you must explicitly add it.

See Select columns on management pages.

Example 4

Let's find all the users who are assigned as an Admin but are no longer active.

  1. Navigate to Admin>Users>Users and Privileges.

  2. Click Advanced and the selection should be:

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