Filters

As your desired state grows, you will find it convenient to restrict the HPCA Administrator CSDB Editor to view only a portion of the CSDB. This saves effort in scrolling through the window to locate the domain, class, or instance that you need to inspect or edit. The HPCA Administrator CSDB Editor has the ability to set filters to provide user-defined restricted views of the CSDB. This is particularly valuable for classes that can have thousands of instances such as the USER Class or the FILE Class.

The filter specification determines which domains, classes, or instances display in the HPCA Administrator CSDB Editor. Filtering is based on matching the name of the domain, class, or instance with the filter specification that you provide.

Filter specifications can contain one or more wildcards, represented by an asterisk, and/or one or more placeholder characters represented by a question mark. An asterisk matches any number of characters in the name of the component that is filtered. Each question mark represents any one character in the name of the component that is filtered.

Here are a few examples of valid filter expressions, and what they select.

Examples of valid filter expressions
Filter Specification Selects
* Wildcard to select all; removes any filter currently in effect.
_* Names whose first character is an underscore.
*_A* Names that have a prefix, and any level of the prefix is followed by an A.
*.?LL Names ending in a period, followed by any one character, followed by LL.
*-??WORD*.HP? Names containing any number of characters preceding a dash, followed by any two characters, followed by WORD, followed by any number of characters up to a period, followed by HP, followed by any one character.

You can apply filters that remain in effect for an entire HPCA Administrator CSDB Editor session (permanent filters), or filters that apply only to the current HPCA Administrator CSDB Editor window (temporary filters).


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