Creating A Computer Group Filter - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Creating a computer group filter

Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User's Guide
Click a job in the Jobs pane. The Condition feature appears in the Details
pane. Click Setup to add new conditions or edit existing conditions. When
you are setting conditions to schedule a job, select from a list of predefined
database fields or create custom tokens that key on other fields in the
database.
Creating custom tokens
You can create custom tokens to set conditions based on the database fields that are not
provided in the available preset conditions in the Conditions dialog. Example: Select
User Defined Token from the drop-down list in the Fields box. Select contains in the
Operation field, and enter Milo in the Value field. In the Token field, enter the
following custom token:
with the registered license user named Milo. The job runs only on the computers that
meet the specified criteria.
Filter Name Description
Active Displays all the active computers.
Computers
Inactive Displays all the inactive computers.
Computers
Computers With Displays all the computers where jobs have failed to execute.
Failed Jobs
Windows 2003 Displays only the computers with Windows 2003 or 2008
or 2008 operating systems.
Windows XP/ Displays only the computers with Windows XP or Vista operating
Vista systems.
Windows CE Displays only the computers with Windows CE operating systems.
(PDAs)
Linux Displays only the computers with Linux operating systems.
Windows XP Displays only the computers with Windows XP Embedded
Embedded operating systems.
Windows CE Displays only the computers with Windows CE .NET operating
.NET systems.
Pocket PC Displays only the Pocket PC computers.
(PDAs)
The Computer Filters dialog displays a list of all computers in a group according to the
specified criteria. Example: You can create a filter to view all the computers in a
particular group that have Windows 2008, 256 MB of RAM, and 20 GB hard disks only.
By applying the filter, you can view all the computers that meet the specified criteria in
the Details pane of the Deployment Console.
%#!computer@lic_os_user%
. This filters out only the jobs
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