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- Under Saved Searches, click New Search.
- In the Select Filters panel, click CTRL + click or SHIFT + click to choose the device group(s) in the Device Group list.
- Specify the Results Per Config. See the following choices:
- First Occurrence: Searches and then displays only the first positive match.
- All Occurrences: 6Searches Searches and displays all positive matches in each configuration file.
- Specify the Scope. See the following choices:
- Current Running: Search through the current running configuration of the specified devices, as collected by NetMRI.
- Current Running and Saved: This performs the search through all configuration files for the device that is currently stored in NetMRI. This search may take considerably longer.
- All Current and Archived Changes: This confines the search to changes detected and archived by NetMRI.
- In the Define Criteria panel, enter one or more search criteria: select a parameter, select an operator (Contains, Matches, Does Not Match, or RegEx), enter the matching string, and then click Add.
Below the search criteria list, specify how to apply the search criteria. If you chose Custom Logic Builder..., enter the logic for combining the search criteria in the field to the right [for example, 1 and (2 or 3)].
To control which columns appear in the results, click the Edit Result Fields button. The Edit Results Fields dialog appears.
- Use the horizontal arrows to move the fields between the Available Fields and Selected Fields lists (fields in the Selected Fields list appear in the result). You can also double-click fields to move them between the lists.
- Use the vertical arrows, First button and Last button to rearrange fields in the Selected Fields list (the top-to-bottom order in the Selected Fields list translates into left-to-right order in the results).
- To preview the new column arrangement: Click Apply.
- Click OK.
- Click Run.
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After a search finishes, you will often see more than one search result for a given device, depending on whether you select Current Running and Saved or All Current and Archived Changes.
After executing a Searchsearch, click the IP address hotlink for any device to open its Device Viewer. Then, click Configuration Management –> Config Explorer. Then, click the Actions icon and choose View Configuration File for any config file that is present in the device.
To test a configuration file against a policy: click the IP address hotlink for any device to open its Device Viewer. Then, click Configuration Management –> Config Explorer. Then, click the Actions icon and choose Test Against Policy for any config file.
To set a configuration file baseline, do the following:
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