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
| Search for | Example | Results |
|---|---|---|
| A single word | cat
|
Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
|
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 |
|---|---|---|
|
Two or more words in the same topic |
|
|
| Either word in a topic |
|
|
| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
|
|
| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
|
| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
|
- Introduction to Configuration Manager
- HPE Universal CMDB Configuration Manager Overview
- Configuration Modeling and Analysis
- Offline Analysis
- Policies
- Data Control - Actual and Authorized States
- Historical Comparison
- Topology Mode and Inventory Mode
- System Operation Automation
- User Management
- Configuration Manager in a Multi-Tenant UCMDB Environment
- Licensed Content
- Home Page
- UCMDB Browser
- Use Cases
- Best Practices for Working with Configuration Manager
Topology Mode and Inventory Mode
Configuration management can be conducted from a topology perspective or from an inventory perspective. A service owner may prefer to view the complete service topology from the highest level business service CI down to the hardware CIs, while a manager focusing on a specific CI type, such as the database administrator, may want to see a list consisting of many CIs of the same type.
To address this issue, Configuration Manager offers two different modes for viewing each managed environment:
-
Inventory mode. A filterable list of CIs
-
Topology mode. A topological graph
Inventory mode enables you to filter large lists of composite CIs and to focus on subsets of interesting CIs, such as CIs that have changed or CIs that are in breach of a policy. Topology mode provides a broader graphical presentation of the service topology.
