Updating the Membership of a Filter

The membership of a filter is determined by running the filter query on the CMDB to extract the appropriate resources. To keep the filter membership up-to-date as the resource information in the CMDB changes, you should update the membership at suitable intervals. You can use the scheduled filter updates to update the filter membership, or you can run the update manually at appropriate times. For example, when you create or modify a filter, you can update the membership to verify that the filter is correctly defined.
The Filter Membership panel on the
Filter Name
page shows details of the resources in your scope that are currently identified as members of the filter. The filter membership may be different for different user roles. Only the resources that a user has Read permission on are visible to that user. However, when a user manually updates the membership of a filter, the filter query is run on all resources in the CMDB. The console restricts the results to show only the resources that are within the viewing user's scope.
This task is a step in the process for creating or modifying a filter.
  1. To update the membership of a filter
  2. In the Symantec Management Console, on the
    Manage
    menu, click
    Filters
    .
  3. In the left pane, click the filter for which you want to update the membership.
  4. In the right pane, in the
    Filter Membership
    panel, do any of the following:
    To update the filter membership immediately
    Click
    Update Membership
    .
    To update the filter membership using the filter update schedules
    Click
    Update Membership > Auto
    .
    To allow manual filter membership updates only
    Click
    Update Membership > Manual
    .
    This option turns off the scheduled updates for the filter membership. For example, the filter contains a complex query that you want to run only when necessary.