Filtering SAV data

When you select Filter from the View menu, or, click Filter on the SAV tool bar, a search control appears above the maps and tabs that allows you to filter according to the following objects (if they were captured as part of the scan) and their attributes, listed below.

Object	Attributes filtered
Compliance Policy	Name, compliance status (compliant, partial, noncompliant, scan failure, scan needed, scanning)
Databases	Name, status, type, version
Database Files	Name, location, type, path, description, size, free space, % used, status.
Disk (applies to servers, SAN arrays, and NAS filers)	Device, manufacturer, model, serial number, size (bytes), type
Fibre Channel Adapter	Driver version, firmware version, hardware version, model, node world wide name, serial number
Fibre Channel Port (applies to servers, SAN arrays, and NAS filers)	Fabric, name, port number, status, world wide name
File System	% used, device, free space (bytes), mount options, mount point, size (bytes), type
LUN Volume	Capacity (bytes), name
NAS Filer	Hardware version, hostname, manufacturer, model, name, operating system version, Server ID, serial number
NFS Export	% used, export path, free space (bytes), size (bytes)
Network Device	Asset tag, firmware version, manufacturer, model, name, operating system, Server ID, processor
Network Interface	Broadcast address, device, duplex, IP address, MAC address, neg. duplex, neg. speed, speed
Network Port	Duplex, MAC address, neg. duplex, neg. speed, speed
Process Family	CPU utilization, command line, connected port, environment variables, listener port, modules, name, open files
SAN Array	Firmware version, manufacturer, model, name, Server ID, serial number
SAN Switch	Firmware version, hardware version, manufacturer, model, name, Server ID, serial number
SAN Zone	Name
Server	1 minute load average, 15 minute load average, 5 minute load average, codeset, free memory (bytes), kernel, name, operating system
Tablespaces	Name, location, description, size, free space, % used, status.
VLAN	Descriptions, ports, VLAN ID

You can filter the current snapshot in according to one or several of the objects in the list, as well as applying operators and attributes, according to certain attributes, and then apply operators to the attributes, depending if the object is a string or a number.

Filter results appear in the Tabs and Maps. In the maps, while all other objects that do not meet the filtering criteria appear grayed out in the maps.

For more information on filtering criteria and regular expressions, see Filter Criteria.

Creating a Data Filter in SAV

To filter data that was collected in the currently loaded SAV snapshot:

1. From the View menu, select Filter. (Or, from the SAV toolbar, click Filter.) The Filter pane appears above the maps.
2. In the Filter pane rule criteria, choose if you want to show either ANY or ALL of the selected objects (plus their attributes) that meet your filtering criteria.
3. From the drop-down list, select an object category to filter in the current snapshot and add criteria to narrow the filter, such as Compliance Policy, File System, Process Family, and so on.
4. Using the criteria drop down list, create a meaningful expression. For example, if you chose Disk as a category, you could set Size (bytes) is greater than (>) 5000 (bytes). For more information on expressions, see Filter Criteria and Examples of Regular Expressions.
5. To select another filter criteria rule, click Add. To remove a comparison rule, click Remove .
6. As you create filter rules, SAV automatically displays any or all results in any of the maps or the Infrastructure pane. All results that meet the criteria appear normally in the maps and the Infrastructure pane. Any results in the snapshot that do not meet the criteria are shown in the maps grayed out.
7. From any of the results related to server, you can select the server on which the results were found, right-click, and select Open Remote Terminal or Open Device Explorer to browse the server.

Filter Criteria

In the filter criteria text boxes in the Filter pane, enter Perl 5 compatible regular expressions as filtering criteria. You can filter by using standard text matching and also by adding any regular expression patterns.

Strings Operators

• Contains (default)
• Does Not Contain
• Is
• Is Not
• Starts With
• Ends With
• Matches Regular Expression

Numbers

• ==    is equal to
• !=      not
• <      less than
• >     Greater than
• <=   less than or equal to
• >=   greater than or equal to

All filtering is performed in case-sensitive mode.

The units of measure for filtered items should match what is shown in the Filter Results and Properties Pane, such as:

• Memory: Bytes
• Uptime: Days
• Percentages: A number from 0 to 100, (such as disk space used and CPU utilization)
• Diskspace: Bytes

Examples of Regular Expressions

The following examples show how to use regular expressions in filter text boxes:

• OperatingSystem: To find all servers that are not running a Windows operating system, look for servers whose operating system does not begin with an “M” (for Microsoft Windows). For example, enter ^ [^M] in this text box.
• Kernel: To find servers whose kernel is one of 2.6.5, 2.6.6 or 2.6.7, enter 2.6.[5-7] in this text box.
• MountPoint: To find all mounted UNIX file systems other than /, enter /.+ in this text box.