DCO: How to find all servers using equipment browser

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This question was originally posted on DCIM Support by Christian Riis on 2018-03-06

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The equipment browser is a very powerful tool in DCO. In this example, we will use the equipment browser to create a "list of all our servers". *)

Here is the rack we will use as an example. It contains various types of equipment.

1. In the equipment browser, begin by selecting the Equipment type column. 
   
   
2. Servers are of type Generic Rack-mount Equipment. Type this into the search field:
   
   
   This will list all the servers - but what about the blades?
3. Blades are of type Blade. Add this OR Blade entry:
   
   
   Now we get both the blades and their enclosures. What if we would like to see the blades - but not the enclosures?
4. Modify the search field to exclude the enclosures (which are of type Blade Enclosure) by adding a NOT statement:
   
   
5. From here it is easy to export the results to a .csv file for import into our report tool of choice.
   
   

Thanks to Jef Faridi for help on this post!

Related topics: .

More options with equipment browser: Filtering and finding equipment in Equipment Browser

*) real-life use-case

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This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Christian Riis on 2018-03-06

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How to find "Rack" but not "Rack mount PDU":

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This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Gert Lehmann on 2018-03-06

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Really nice tip, but keep in mind that "Generic Rack-mount Equipment"  is a fairly broad type which covers both servers and storage devices.

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