Specifications

Basic System Administration
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YourchoicesforthepanelsarepersistentacrossVIClientsessions.Ifyourunmultiple
VIClientsessionsusingdifferentusernames,thesettingsfromthelastsessiontoquit
determinethevaluesforthenextVIClientsession.
Sorting and Filtering Lists
SortanylistintheVIClientbyclickingthecolumnlabelheading.Atriangleinthe
columnheadshowsthesortorderasascendingordescending.
Youcanalsofilteralist,sortingandincludingonlyselecteditems.Afilterissortedby
akeyword.Choosethecolumnsyouwant
toincludeinthesearchforthekeyword.
To sort a list
Clickacolumnheadingtosortthelistbyentriesinthatcolumn.Thecurrentselection
doesnotchange.
To change between ascending and descending order
Clickthetriangleinthecolumnheading.
To choose items in a list
Clickanindividualitem.PressShift‐clickorCtrl‐clicktochoosemultipleitems.All
lists
canbesorted.
To view or remove columns in a list
Right‐clickthecolumnheaderandchoosethecolumnnamefromthelist.
To filter the list view
1Clickthearrowtoviewalistofattributesfromwhichtochoose.Typetextdirectly
intothefilteringfieldtospecifysearchcriteria.
TheFilterfielddoesnotsupportbooleanexpressionsorspecial
charactersandis
notcasesensitive.
2ClickOKtodisplayonlythosevirtualmachinesthatmatchthecriteria.ClickClear
tochangethefilter.
Thelistisupdatedbasedonwhetherfilteringisonoroff.Forexample,ifyouareinthe
VirtualMachinestab,youhavefilteredthelist,
andthefilteredtextis“poweredon”,
youseealistonlyofvirtualmachineswhosestateissettopoweredon.Ifthestateof
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OTEThereisaonesecondintervalbetweenkeystrokes.Ifyoutypeinthetextand
waitforonesecond,thesearchstartsautomatically.Youdon’thavetoclickOKorEnter.