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Search, filter, and sort information in System Manager

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You can search for various actions, objects, and information topics in System Manager. You can also search table data for specific entries.

System Manager provides two types of searching:

  • Global searching

    When you enter a search argument in the field at the top of each page, System Manager searches throughout the interface to find matches. You can then sort and filter the results.

    Beginning with ONTAP 9.12.1, System Manager also provides search results from the NetApp Support Site to provide links to relevant support information.

  • Table-grid searching

    Beginning with ONTAP 9.8, when you enter a search argument in the field at the top of a table grid, System Manager searches only the columns and rows of that table to find matches.

Global searching

At the top of each page in System Manager, you can use a global search field to search various objects and actions in the interface. For example, you can search for different objects by name, pages available in the navigator column (on the left side), various action items, like "Add Volume" or "Add License", and links to external help topics. You can also filter and sort the results.

Note For better results, perform searching, filtering, and sorting one minute after logging in and five minutes after creating, modifying, or deleting an object.

Getting search results

The search is not case-sensitive. You can enter a variety of text strings to find the page, actions, or information topics you need. Up to 20 results are listed. If more results are found, you can click Show more to view all results. The following examples describe typical searches:

Type of search

Sample search string

Sample search results

By object name

vol_

vol_lun_dest on storage VM: svm0 (Volume)
/vol/vol…est1/lun on storage VM: svm0 (LUN)
svm0:vol_lun_dest1 role: Destination (Relationship)

By location in interface

volume

Add Volume (Action)
Protection – Overview (Page)
Recover deleted volume (Help)

By actions

add

Add Volume (Action)
Network – Overview (Page)
Expand volumes and LUNs (Help)

By help content

san

Storage – Overview (Page)
SAN overview (Help)
Provision SAN storage for databases (Help)

Global search results from NetApp Support Site

Beginning with ONTAP 9.12.1, for users who are registered with Active IQ, System Manager displays another column of results that provide links to NetApp Support Site information, including System Manager product information.

Search results contain the following information:

  • Title of the information which is a link to the document in HTML, PDF, EPUB, or other format.

  • Content type, which identifies whether it is a product documentation topic, a KnowledgeBase article, or another type of information.

  • Summary description of the content.

  • Created date when it was first published.

  • Updated date when it was last updated.

You can perform the following actions:

Action

Result

Click ONTAP System Manager, then enter text in the search field.

The search results include NetApp Support Site information about System Manager.

Click All products, then enter text in the search field.

The search results include NetApp Support Site information for all NetApp products, not only for System Manager.

Click a search result.

The information from the NetApp Support Site is displayed in a separate browser window or tab.

Click See more results.

If there are more than ten results, you can click See more results after the tenth result to view more results. Each time you click See more results, another ten results are displayed, if available.

Copy the link.

The link is copied to the clipboard. You can paste the link in a file or in a browser window.

Click blue pin icon.

The panel where the results are displayed is pinned so it remains displayed when you work in another panel.

Click X icon to close panel.

The results panel is no longer pinned and is closed.

Filtering search results

You can narrow the results with filters, as shown in the following examples:

Filter

Syntax

Sample search string

By object type

<type>:<objectName>

volume:vol_2

By object size

<type><size-symbol><number><units>

luns<500mb

By broken disks

“broken disk” or “unhealthy disk”

unhealthy disk

By network interface

<IP address>

172.22.108.21

Sorting search results

When you view all the search results, they are sorted alphabetically. You can sort the results by clicking filtering menu and selecting how you want to sort the results.

Table-grid searching

Beginning with ONTAP 9.8, whenever System Manager displays information in a table-grid format, a search button appears at the top of the table.

When you click Search, a text field appears in which you can enter a search argument. System Manager searches the entire table and displays only the rows that contain text that matches your search argument.

You can use an asterisk ( * ) as a "wildcard" character as a substitute for characters. For example, searching for vol* might provide rows that contain the following:

  • vol_122_D9

  • vol_lun_dest1

  • vol2866

  • volspec1

  • volum_dest_765

  • volume

  • volume_new4

  • volume9987