HP Network Direr Software Products manual For example, Searching Within the Search Results

194CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH THE MAP

The wildcards supported by 3Com Network Director are shown in the following table:

Table 31 Wildcard Characters

Wildcard Matches

*Zero or more characters

? Exactly one character

For example:

■To find all devices that include the text switch in their name, select Find: Devices Search by: Name and enter the Name: *switch*.

■To find devices with IP addresses in the range 123.45.67.80 – 123.45.67.89, select Find: Devices Search by: IP address and enter the IP address: 123.45.67.8?

■To find all NBX telephony components located at headquarters, where that location is set as either Headquarters or HQ, select Find: NBX telephony components Search by: Location and enter the Location: H*Q*

If you do not enter a value to search for then 3Com Network Director will treat this as if you have entered a * wildcard character. You can use this feature to find all items that have the attribute specified in the Search by: option. For example, if you leave the value field empty when searching by IP address, 3Com Network Director will list all devices with an IP address on your network.

Searching Within the Search Results

The Find dialog box, by default, performs a fresh search across all of the items in the map every time Find is clicked. However, you may restrict subsequent searches to only searching within the results of the last search by checking the Find only within current list checkbox.

This allows you to perform more complex searches, such as finding all devices of a particular device type on a particular subnet.

If the Find only within current list checkbox is checked and the results table is empty or does not contain items suitable to the search being performed then the Find dialog box will perform a fresh search across all of the items in the map.