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
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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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Example: Event blocking with conditions
This is an example of event blocking from two servers, microfocus and falcon.
To block incident open events from both microfocus and another server named dolphin, select or in the Condition field, 2 in the second Index field and dolphin in the second Value field on the External Filters tab. If you specify a condition (AND or OR), then you must complete both Index and both Value fields.
To prevent insertion of records in the eventin file, the Block Events? field must be true (checked).
To specify a time range for blocking, set the Start Blocking at and End Blocking at fields. In this example, use 08:00 for start blocking and 17:00 for end blocking.
With these settings, all inventory add (icma) events are blocked between 08:00 and 17:00 if they come from either the microfocus or dolphin server. This action avoids unnecessary adds and updates if installation activity is scheduled to occur on the network during this time.
Related topics
Event blocking
Event blocking with conditions
Event Services
View event schedules
View Event Services agent status
View registered events
