Find Hosts

In this window, you can filter the hosts (endpoints or managed nodes) on which you want to run a task, and you can add the hosts that meet the filter criteria to the list of available hosts.

To filter the hosts:

  1. For Host Type, select either Endpoint or Managed Node.
  2. For Host Limit, type an integer that indicates the maximum number of hosts to be returned from the search. The default is 100.
  3. For Filter Criteria, type the regular expression to use as the filter criteria for the search. The default value is an empty string, which does not filter anything but rather returns all hosts of the specified host type in the Tivoli Management Region.

    The following information illustrates how to filter endpoints or managed nodes. For this example, assume the following Tivoli Management Framework configuration:

    To find all endpoints with host names that start with "tiv," type ^tiv. The results are:
    tiv-ep1, tiv-ep2, tiv-ep3, tiv-ep4, tiv-ep5, tiv-ep6, tiv-ep7, tiv-ep8, tiv-ep9, tiv-ep10

    To find only tiv-ep1, tiv-ep2, tiv-ep3, and tiv-ep4, type ^tiv-ep[1-4]. The results are:
    tiv-ep1, tiv-ep2, tiv-ep3, tiv-ep4

    To find all gateway managed nodes, type ^tiv-gw. The results are:
    tiv-gw1, tiv-gw2, tiv-gw3

    To find all gateway and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console managed nodes, type ^tiv-gw|^tiv-tec. The results are:
    tiv-gw1, tiv-gw2, tiv-gw3, tiv-tec1, tiv-tec2, tiv-tec3

    To find all managed nodes with host names that contain "tec," type tec. The results are:
    tiv-tec1, tiv-tec2, tiv-tec3

  4. Click Get Hosts.

The hosts that meet the filter criteria are now shown. To add one or more of these hosts to the list of available hosts, select the respective host names in this window, and click Add. To replace the list of available hosts with one or more of these hosts, select the respective host names in this window, and click Replace.

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