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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Collection Page
This page enables you to select the type of computer data to collect.
| Important information |
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| Wizard map |
The Scanner Generator Wizard contains: Scenario Page > Standard Configuration Page > Collection Page > Hardware Data Page > Software Data Page > Software Details Page > Asset Data Page > Scanner Options Page > Scanners to Generate Page > Generating Scanners Page |
User interface elements are described below:
| UI Element | Description |
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| Hardware and Configuration |
If selected, the scan collects hardware and configuration data, including details of the processor, memory configuration, computer bus, attached cards, hard disks, attached drives, monitor, video adapter, keyboard, mouse, OS version, network protocols and addresses. See Hardware Data Page. Note In Enterprise mode, this option is always selected and cannot be disabled. |
| Software Data | If selected, the scan collects detailed information about files and directories on all scanned drives. The information collected about files can be defined (including the file types inventoried and the level of information collected). It is possible to define which drives are to be scanned based on the media of the drive, as well as determine which files are included in the scan file and which are ignored. See Software Data Page. |
| Asset Data | If selected, the scan collects Asset data which consists of asset fields that can be collected automatically. See Asset Data Page. |
