Creating a New Filter in ITMS Management Views
You can quickly create a new filter in ITMS Management Views.
- To create a new filter
- In the Symantec Management Console, on theManagemenu, clickComputers.
- On theComputersview page, do one of the following:
- In the content pane, underFilters, right-click, and then clickNew > Filter.
- To create a new filter in a particular folder, right-click a folder, and then clickNew > Filter.
- In the content pane, in the top left corner, click theNew Filtersymbol.
- In the content pane, clickAdd Filter Criteria.
- Depending on the type of filter that you want to create, do one of the following:
- To edit a Query Builder filter, in the drop-down list, choose any criteria, and then, in the text box next to the criterion name, type the criterion value.You can add as many criteria as necessary.To add custom criteria to your filter, in the drop-down list, clickEdit Criteria List. In theManage Filter Criteriadialog box, you can choose data classes, associations and columns.After you have chosen the custom criteria, in the content pane, in theAdd Filter Criteriadrop-down list, click the new query parameters that you have added, and then specify their value. If the parameter value is numerical, you can use comparison operators to combine these numbers.After you configure the query and save it, it is automatically added to the filter, and the computer list in the content pane is automatically updated.The filter criteria are combined through the logical operator AND.
- To create a SQL filter, on the right from theNew Filtersymbol, click theEdit SQLsymbol.In theEdit Raw SQLdialog box, edit and test the query, and then clickOKto save the newly created query.Filter evaluation may take a longer time depending on the complexity of SQL, specified criteria, and included filters.
- To add a static list of computers or filters, in the content pane, click theUse only explicit criteriasymbol.In theAdd Explicit Criteriadrop-down list, click one of the options to include or exclude a computer list or a filter. In theInclude/Exclude Computer List/Filterdialog box, choose the items that you want to include or exclude, and then clickOK.If you want to see only the explicit criteria, in the content pane, next to theSave Filtersymbol, click theUse only explicit criteriasymbol.
- After you have added the filter criteria, click theSave Filteror theSave Filter Assymbol.
- (Optional) To compile a custom report, in the content pane, click theView filter results reportsymbol.In theFilter Results Reportdialog box, select the association, data classes and columns. To save the report configuration for the selected filter, at the bottom of the dialog box, checkSave the selected columns for filter. The configuration is saved separately for each user and each filter. To export the report results as a CSV file, clickExport.
- In theSave Filteror theSave Filter Asdialog box, type the new name for the filter, choose if the filter should be displayed in theComputersview, and then clickOK.If a filter with the same name already exists, you are prompted to overwrite the existing filter. If the filter that you have chosen to overwrite is a read-only filter, you need to either rename the filter or clone it. If you try to overwrite a filter that has dependencies, you are prompted to look at the list of dependencies first.
After you have created a filter, in the content pane, you see a dynamic list of computers based on the filter criteria that you have added.