HP Network Direr Software Products manual Using the Find Dialog Box to Select Items for Operations

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Using the Find Dialog Box to Select Items for Operations

There are various operations in 3Com Network Director for which you must first select a list of items to perform the operation on before you may proceed, such as selecting a list of devices that are to have their configuration backed-up, or selecting a list of links to disable an event for.

These operations all use the Find dialog box to allow you to select items for the list.

When launched from within an operation, the Find dialog does not act as a navigation tool or launch point for operations, and the Find: list only includes item types that are appropriate to the operation being performed.

Finding Devices

The Find: Devices option allows you to find devices on your network. In addition, when the Find dialog box is launched from Edit > Find or the toolbar, some searches will also find clouds, subnets and device groups on your network. The following Search by: options are available:

Table 32 Search by: Options

Search by:

Option Description

Name Finds devices whose Custom Name, DNS Name or System Name matches the entered name.

When the Find dialog is launched from Edit > Find or the toolbar this also finds matching clouds, subnets and device groups.

You may use wildcards in the value that you enter in the Name: field.

User name Find devices that are logged on to the network using 802.1X whose user name matches the entered user name.

You may use wildcards in the value that you enter in the User name: field.

IP address Finds devices that have an IP address that matches the entered IP address.

When the Find dialog is launched from Edit > Find or the toolbar this also finds subnets whose IP address matches the entered IP address.

You may use wildcards in any of the four fields of the IP address.

If you use wildcards, or leave one or more fields of the IP address blank, and a device has more than one IP address that matches the entered IP address then the device will be listed multiple times in the results table, once for each matching IP address.