Creating Groups by Filter

Question

Hello,

me again... I've scanned my Clients with OMSA to have a "kind of" inventory. Of course I dont need the Warning "Client XY is down"

So i Created a Group by Filter (BS-NAME includes 7 or XP).

The Problem. I have several Clients that have the BS Information Windows 7. But they won't change the Group and creating a flood of Warnings...

Is it Possible to assign more than 150 Objects to a group?

Thanks in advance!

Andreas

DELL-Abhijit P · Answer

Thanks for the updates.

Now I understand the question better. The clients which do not appear in the client group, do those have 7 or XP in the name? May be those are discovered with IP addresses in the name column which doesn't satisfy the group filtering condition.

Regards

Abhijit

Sandman86 · Answer

Hello,

thanks for reply. Yes the names contains Xp. But I made an "workaround". have Created 2 Groups 1Xp 2W7 now the Filtering works. As u mentioned OMSA does not support these Clients. So any Information I can get is an goody...

Now I must only understand this "MIB thing". en.community.dell.com/.../19465419.aspx

Tanks an Advance.

How can I mark this Thread as solved?

DELL-Abhijit P · Answer

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your post. When you say clients with OMSA, do you mean these are Dell servers with OMSA installed or are these client machines with windows 7/ windows XP installed? OME doesn't really support clients and client OSes and you may not get any inventory unless it is a server with OMSA installed on it.

If you have range of IP addresses dedicated to client machines, you can use exclude range option so that OME will not discover those. You can also try using Discover Instrumented devices option (located under Manage->Discovery and Inventory->Discovery Schedule) to exclude client devices from discovery.

If you are using filters, it is possible to assign more than 150 devices to a group. If you have all the devices discovered, creating a filter as you mentioned above should group all those together. I'm not sure about the comment "they won't change the group".

Regards

Abhijit

Sandman86 · Answer

Hello Abhijit,

I mean Clients with Xp or Win7. I know OMSA don't support that. the WMI inventory works great on the Clients. I see Warranty and hardware installed. (Thats all I need).

I dont want warnings from these Clients so i create a group and say BS Name XP or win7 move to group "Clients". Then I say this group should not report Events like shutdown/up. This works fine. But some Clients (XP or Win7 ) installed will not appear in that "Client" group. They are only listed under unknown.

Regards

DELL-Abhijit P · Answer

Thanks for the updates. I don't think there is anyway to mark the thread as resolved. I'll add the response to the MIB thread so that these two threads won't get mixed up. Regards Abhijit

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