Custom queries are useful when you want inventory details about
hardware and software installed on your devices. Use a custom query
to build a list of devices with similar inventory. For example, if
you want to upgrade all devices to at least a 2 GHz processor, you
can query for all devices in your database with processor speeds of
less than 2 GHz. Custom queries are also used to define groups and
scopes.
You can query on any of the inventory items (known as
"attributes") that the inventory scanner stores in the
database.
Managing queries
Manage queries in the Queries view. Use this view to create,
edit, or delete queries:
To run an existing query, select it and click
Run.
To create a new query, click New. Once you
have created and saved that query, its name will appear in the list
on this page.
To edit a query in the list, double-click it. The
Edit query page appears with query parameters you can
edit.
To edit the most recent query, click Edit current
query.
To delete a query, select the query and click
Delete.
Creating a query is a four-step process:
Create a search
condition: Specify a set of inventory attributes that will
be the basis of your query.
Select attributes to
display: Refine or "filter" the query so that the results
display the attributes most useful to you, such as IP addresses or
computer device names.
Sort results by attributes
(optional): Specify how you want the query results sorted.
(Only applies if, in Step 2, you selected to display more than one
type of attribute in the query results.)
Run the query:
Run the query you just created. You can also save it for later use,
or clear all of the query information to begin again.