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Performing Searches

Some deployments scale to hundreds of thousands of managed items. Multiple search features help you locate data for specific items or groups of items.

If your user account has the required role right, you can begin your search from the Inventory tab. On this tab, you can view a list of managed item types. Click a link to see a list of items. Then search among the items themselves in the list using the search field and the sorting and paging features below the list view.

Inventory and Search Results pages also provide access to on-demand reports.

Note: The ability to view the Inventory and perform a global search is granted to individual operators with their role. Only users with the ‘View Inventory and Search’ role right can view the Inventory tab.

Perform a global search using the search field at the top of any page. This type of search scans all items in the database, across all data sources. A global search returns lists of all items in the Inventory that match your search, sorted by item type. Filtering the results further is also supported in each view. For more information, see Narrowing a Search with Filters.

A more limited search feature is available for table views and does not require a special role right. The search that you perform from a table footer filters out managed items that would otherwise appear in that view. No items from other views or dashboards are displayed.