Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Baseline exception reporting
Baseline records are separate from the configuration item (CI) records they manage. If any baseline attribute differs from the attribute in the authorized state of a CI using this baseline, an exception occurs. However, you may authorize an exception to the baseline, rather than create a new baseline. For example, you might have a baseline requiring that all application servers have 8 GB of RAM, but you have one application server, the Web server, that needs to have 16 GB of RAM. The baseline exception reporting will report this instance within your baseline.
Related terms
Configuration Item (CI)
Configuration Management
Configuration Management System (CMS)
Baselines
Baseline attributes
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Service desk
Web Services
