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Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Searching for devices
Use the Find device search to find a device or device group(s) to which a network device
belongs. Find Device is a "contains" search. For example, if you enter the numbers 192 for an
IP address search, any device whose IP address contains the sequential numbers 192 would
be listed in the search results.
To search for a device:
1 Click the Devices tab, then click Find Device. The Find Device dialog appears.
2 Enter a device search in the Find Device box or click Search for advanced search
options. Select the device aspect by which you would like to perform the device search;
either Device Display Name, Hostname, IP Address, or All. If you select to perform a search
by All, WhatsUp Gold searches for the matching criteria in the device's display name,
hostname, and IP address.
3 In For, enter the device criteria for which WhatsUp Gold will search for a match.
Tip: Select Exact match to have WhatsUp Gold search for an exact match of the search
criteria you enter in For.
4 Click Find. Device search results are displayed in the lower section of the dialog.
Note: By default, Find Device searches for matches that contain your search criteria. For
example, if you search for Device IP Address and 12, your search results can contain matches
for addresses including 12.0.0.1, 192.168.120.2, 172.16.42.12, 10.122.0.1, 172.16.42.112, and
192.168.212.1.
The dialog displays the following data about devices matching the search criteria.
The device's Display Name.
The device's Hostname.
The device's IP Address.
The Device Group to which the device belongs. If a device belongs to more than one
device group, it is listed multiple times in the list of devices, one time for each group
in which it belongs.
Note: Devices are displayed in this list according to a user's group access rights. You must
have Group Read rights to at least one group to which a device belongs in order for it to
appear in the results list. For more information, see Group Access and User Rights for the Find
feature (on page 77).
To view a group to which the device belongs:
Select a device from the list, then click View Group. The Device List appears in either Details
or Map View, with the selected device highlighted.
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