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Understanding the DSM Web Console

Web Console provides an intuitive user interface to list, filter, select the objects, and perform specific tasks. This interface offers the following features and functionality:

Navigation Pane

Shows the nodes in a hierarchical manner. You can click on the nodes to navigate to the respective home pages.

Notes:

1. Some nodes such as Automation Migration or MDM Integration appear only if the feature is installed and configured with appropriate user permissions.
2. To retain the state and selections of the objects across the pages, use the breadcrumb navigation.

Items Pane

When you click the nodes in navigation pane, items pane shows you the respective home page which consists of different tabs such as Home, Members and All Groups.

• Home tab shows the properties of the respective object.
• Members tab lists all the direct members.
• All Groups tab lists all the groups and their members in a hierarchical manner.

Actions Pane

You can select the items and find the actions that are allowed to perform from the Actions Pane. The actions enabled in this pane are relative to the selected items that are maintained across filter and paging. Click Deselect All icon to clear the selection.

Selected Items Pane

Selected Items pane shows you the items you selected on the items pane. You can view the count of the selected items. By default this pane remains collapsed and automatically expands and collapses when you select the items. If you manually expand you have to manually collapse it.

Filters

You can apply one or more conditions and filter the listed items.

• The drop-down list includes item properties. Select a property based on which you want to apply the filter condition.
• Select the conditional operators from the drop-down list and specify condition value. When the condition value is allowed to be manually entered, the condition value allows to use the wild cards like asterisk (*) and question mark (?).
• To add more conditions use the + (add filter), and to remove the filters use - (remove filter) icons.
• To clear the filter use x (clear filters) icon.
• You can apply only one of the two logical operators (either AND or OR) across multiple filter conditions.

Sort

You can sort the list of objects by column. Only a single column can be sorted at a time. When you sort the objects, the system groups are always listed on the top, followed by the software group, procedure group and then the other objects as applicable.

Search

Some of the DSM Web Console pages such as Policies, Queries, Software Definitions, Asset and Software provide you various search criteria to list the specific objects you are looking for.

Where

The drop-down list includes various parameters from which you select the search criteria.

Matches

Specifies a value that matches the criteria that you selected from the Where list. You can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard character.

Group By

Specifies a value to group the results.

Note: The values of this field and the content of the search results depend on the class of object that you are searching for.

Advanced Search

Expands the search criteria with two additional Where and Matches criteria that are logically included in the search using AND. To change the ordering of the results use the order directive.

Detailed Results

Defines the search results and information about the object. When the detailed results option is not selected, only the name of the object is displayed. You can improve the performance with the additional information.