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.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Universal CMDB11.0

Use > Data Flow Management > Universal Discovery > Discovery Progress and Results > Filtering Discovery Results

Filtering Discovery Results

You can filter results sent by the Probe to the Universal CMDB server. You would probably need to filter irrelevant data regularly during production runs and specifically when you are testing a limited environment.

There are two levels of filtering:

Adapter filtering. The Probe filters the results for a specific adapter and sends to the CMDB only those filtered CIs. You define an adapter filter in the Results Management pane in the Adapter Configuration tab. For details, see Adapter Configuration Tab.
Global filtering. Universal Discovery filters the results of all jobs running on a Probe. You define global filters in the globalFiltering.xml file. For details, see Configure Filtering Using the globalFiltering.xml File or Configure Filtering in UCMDB.

The order of filtering is as follows:

During a discovery run, the Data Flow Probe first searches for an adapter filter and applies the filter to the results of the run.
If there are no adapter filters, Universal Discovery searches for a global filter and applies that filter to the results.
If no filters are found, all results are sent to the UCMDB Server.

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