Using the CA Configuration Automation User Interface › Filter Table Views

Filter Table Views

Each of the CA Configuration Automation Management tab pages (Services, Servers, Network, Blueprints, Compliance, Remediation, Jobs, Log, and Reports) contains a table that displays details about the corresponding objects. Some of these tables can be very large. To make it easier to work with large amounts of table data, you can create a filter that only displays the objects that are important to you.

To filter table data

1. Open any of the nine tab pages.

   The page displays a corresponding table. For example, if you select the Servers tab, the page displays the Servers table.

2. Create the filter by selecting options from the drop-down lists or typing in the following fields:

   Column

   Specifies the column in the table on which you want to filter. The drop-down list contains an option for each column in the table on which you can filter.

   Value

   Specifies the value in the selected column on which you want to filter. Some drop-down lists contain options for the values in the column selected in the Column field. If there are no options available, you must enter a text string in the field.

   Note:

   • The Value field is not case-sensitive.
   • The string must match exactly—partial matches are not returned. For example if you want to the Blueprints table to display all Apache Blueprints, entering Apache will not return any Blueprints.
   • Wildcards are supported. You can use an asterisk (*) or a percent sign (%) as a wildcard, for example Apache* returns all Blueprints that begin with Apache (Apache Tomcat Servlet Engine, Apache HTTP Server, and so on).

3. (Optional) Add additional filter criteria to create a more complex filter:
   1. Select one of the following options:
      • And—Specifies that table displays objects that match the entries in both pairs of Column and Value fields.
      • Or—Specifies that table displays objects that match entries in either pair of Column and Value fields.
   2. Select an option from the second Column drop-down menu.
   3. Enter or select a value in the second Value column.

      For example, if you create a filter on the Blueprints page with the first Column field set to Blueprint Name and the first Value field set to Apache*, and the second pair of fields set to Blueprint Version and 1.0.0, selecting the And option would display all Apache Blueprints with a version of 1.0.0. If you select the Or option, the table would display all Blueprints that begin with Apache (regardless of what version they are), and all Blueprints that are version 1.0.0 (regardless of what their name is).

4. Click Refresh.

   The table displays the rows of objects that match your filter criteria.

To clear a filter and display all table data

1. Open any of the eight tab pages.

   The page displays a corresponding table.

2. Do one of the following:
   • Click Reset to clear the filter fields.
   • Select the blank entry from both of the Column drop-down lists (the blank option is the first entry on the menu, it appears above the first text option).
3. Click Refresh.

   The filter is cleared and the table displays the first 50 rows of table data (rows 51 and above are displayed on different pages, 50 rows to a page).