User's Manual

194 CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH THE MAP
The wildcards supported by 3Com Network Director are shown in the
following table:
Table 31 Wildcard Characters
For example:
■ To find all devices that include the text switch in their name, select
Find: Devices Search by: Name and enter the Name: *switch*.
■ To find devices with IP addresses in the range 123.45.67.80 –
123.45.67.89, select Find: Devices Search by: IP address and enter the
IP address: 123.45.67.8?
■ To find all NBX telephony components located at headquarters, where
that location is set as either Headquarters or HQ, select Find: NBX
telephony components Search by: Location and enter the Location:
H*Q*
If you do not enter a value to search for then 3Com Network Director will
treat this as if you have entered a * wildcard character. You can use this
feature to find all items that have the attribute specified in the Search by:
option. For example, if you leave the value field empty when searching by
IP address, 3Com Network Director will list all devices with an IP address
on your network.
Searching Within the Search Results
The Find dialog box, by default, performs a fresh search across all of the
items in the map every time Find is clicked. However, you may restrict
subsequent searches to only searching within the results of the last search
by checking the Find only within current list checkbox.
This allows you to perform more complex searches, such as finding all
devices of a particular device type on a particular subnet.
If the Find only within current list checkbox is checked and the results
table is empty or does not contain items suitable to the search being
performed then the Find dialog box will perform a fresh search across all
of the items in the map.
Wildcard Matches
* Zero or more characters
? Exactly one character