Avocent SPC420 Using Windows, Sorting information in a window, Filtering information in a window

26DSView 3 Software Installer/User Guide

Using Windows

Sorting information in a window

The order of rows in a list may be changed by clicking the heading of one of the displayed columns. When you click a column heading, the order of the list rows will change to alphabetically ascending, based on that column. If you click the column heading a second time, the order will change to an alphabetically descending order. An up arrow indicates ascending order and a down arrow indicates descending order.

If you are using the topology feature in a Units View window, see Topology view on page 104 for sorting criteria.

Filtering information in a window

Some DSView 3 software windows allow you to filter list information by providing a text string that will be used to retrieve matching items. Filtering is useful if you have many target devices or other items that extend over many pages. Windows that allow filtering contain a text field and a Filter button in the content area, as shown in Figure 3.1 on page 23.

Filtering is performed either over the entire list of items or of specified columns, and can provide a shorter, more exact list of items. When filtering is performed, each row and column is searched for the specified text string. For example, you may wish to perform filtering to list only DSR1031 switches in the Name column, target devices with KVM connections in the Action column, idle ACS console servers in the Status column and so on. Additionally, from a Units View window, you can use the Custom Fields and Filter link to exclude columns from the filter and provide a more exact list of filtered items. See Using the Customize link in windows on page 28.

When the topology feature is enabled in a Units View window, both parent and child units will display in the filtered view. For example, if you filter for a child named target device 1 that is attached to a DSR1031 switch, target device 1 will appear below the DSR1031 switch in the filtered view.

When filtering, you may use an asterisk (*) before and/or after text strings as a wildcard. For example, typing emailserver* and clicking Filter will display items with emailserver at the beginning (such as emailserver, emailserverbackup). Typing *emailserver* and clicking Filter will display items containing emailserver in any part of the name (such as emailserver, emailserverstore, tdemailserver, tdemailserver1).

Table 3.3 lists the ways you may specify text strings for filtering.