Hints and Tips to Search for Assets and Alerts

10/16/2024 Contributors

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Multiple search techniques can be used to search for data or objects in your monitored environment.

Wildcard search

You can perform multiple character wildcard search using the * character. For example, applic*n would return application.
Phrases used in search

A phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotation marks; for example, "VNX LUN 5". You can use double quotes to search for documents that contain spaces in their names or attributes.
Boolean Operators

Using Boolean operators OR, AND, and NOT, you can combine multiple terms to form a more complex query.

OR

The OR operator is the default conjunction operator.

If there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used.

The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching document if either of the terms exists in a document.

For example, storage OR netapp searches for documents that contain either storage or netapp.

High scores are given to documents that match most of the terms.

AND

You can use the AND operator to find documents in which both the search terms exist in a single document. For example, storage AND netapp searches for documents that contain both storage and netapp.

You can use the symbol && instead of the word AND.

NOT

When you use the NOT operator, all the documents that contain the term after NOT are excluded from the search results. For example, storage NOT netapp searches for documents that contains only storage and not netapp.

You can use the symbol ! instead of the word NOT.

Search is case-insensitive.

Search using indexed terms

Searches that match more of the indexed terms result in higher scores.

The search string is split into separate search terms by space. For example, the search string "storage aurora netapp" is split into three keywords: "storage", "aurora", and "netapp". The search is performed using all three terms. The documents that match most of these terms will have the highest score. The more information you provide, the better are the search results. For example, you can search for a storage by its name and model.

The UI displays the search results across categories, with the three top results per category. If you did not find an object that you were expecting, you can include more terms in the search string to improve the search results.

The following table provides a list of indexed terms that can be added to the search string.

Hints and Tips to Search for Assets and Alerts

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Search using indexed terms