Reporting Groups - Add a Filter

 

 

Use this dialog box to define filters to select specific computers and databases-tablespaces for the reporting group. IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager uses these filters to dynamically include resources to the group as they are discovered within your environment.

For example, if you:

 

 

then "accounting" will automatically be added to the reporting group.

 

The filters you define on this dialog box are saved as part of the reporting group definition.

  

Field Descriptions

Field Name

Description

Filter Pattern

Enter the filter. You can enter limited wildcard characters, such as *, and ?.

 

  • * - any or all matching

  • ? - single character matching

 

For example, to specify all the databases that start with "a", enter a* in the Filter Pattern field.

View

Click View to display the resulting matches based on the filter you defined. All of the resources that match the specified filter criteria should be displayed.

OK

Click OK to display the filter information in the scrollable list in the Computer and Database-Tablespace reporting group windows.

Cancel

Click Cancel to exit the dialog box without applying filters.

 

For more information, see Reporting Groups - Overview.