Searching for Computers in ePO 4

[tonyharding]

Hi

Is there a way that you can search for several computers at once or is it only limited to one computer search at a time?

What im after is to be able to enter computer1,computer2,computer3 and then get the results

thanks

Tony

[GavJacko]

Hi Tony,

If you go into the quick system search and type the first part of the common name then it will bring all machines back like that.

i.e. we have finance machines called Fin-username so if you put Fin in the quick search, it brings back all machines starting with Fin

Any help?

[tonyharding]

its a little help - many thanks

[JoeBidgood]

You can also use the query builder to do this - it's a bit of a clunky approach but it would work. Simply add each machine name as an "or" criterion in the filter - so create a new Managed System table query and set the filter to
"System name equals computer1
or
system name equals computer2
or"

and so on.
HTH -

Joe

[JeffGerard]

I 2nd the query builder idea...it is a great tool. If you build a query and save it, you can then call that query from automated tasks and use the results there.

For example, I have a query that searches my directory for super agents. If I ever want to do a super agent wakeup call, I created a task that uses this query to pull the list of computers then send the sa wakeup call....very handy.

[Scissor]

Is there a way I use Query builder to locate duplicate system names in ePO?   Sometimes when I search for a system I will get two results with the name name.  One result will have the details included (IP, OS, etc), while the second result is blank for those fields.   I'd like to remove the duplicated system names...

[Scissor]

*doh* found it myself.  There is an existing Report called "ePO: Duplicate Systems" that looks like it does what I need.

[JeffGerard]

You saved me the time from replying then

[Fiona]

Jeff, how does your query to discover super agents work?  The only way I've found is to manually tag them but that isn't very efficient.

[JeffGerard]

You are correct.  I am doing the query via tags.  I have my super agents tagged as they have their own place in my system tree.  I would think there might be another way to do this considering the agent properties will distinguish super agents.  I'll have to check this out when I'm back in the office but that won't be until Monday