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Narrowing a Search with Filters

You can narrow or broaden the searches that you perform by adding a wildcard character or filter text to the Search field. Filters can be applied to a global search or to a view-level search.

You can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard character in your searches. For example:

• “serv*” returns all the rows with entries starting with “serv”.
• “*erver” returns all the rows with entries ending in “erver”.
• “*server*” is the same as “server” and returns all the words that contain the word “server” - such as my_server, or server1, or just server.
• “ser*ver” finds all the words that start with “ser” and end with “ver” including “server”.

You can add multiple search words to narrow the search further. For example, if you search for devices using the search string “server 192.168*”, the search returns all servers on the 192.168.0.0/16 network.

If your environment contains many managed items, such as 4 million servers, we recommend filtering global searches. Otherwise, a limit on each global search preserves user interface performance.