HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

passed. To do this, the tool specifies in a system filter expression the system attributes that must be possessed
by all systems it can run on.
NOTE: If a tool cannot be launched for selected systems, an error message appears with information
about why the tool cannot be launched.
The system attributes required for a tool to run are specified by system filter expressions having the form:
<node-filter name="attribute-name" operator="eq"
value="attribute-value" />
or
<node-filter name="attribute-name" operator="ge"
value="attribute-value" />
or
<node-filter name="attribute-name" operator="lt"
value="attribute-value" />
or
<node-filter name="attribute-name" operator="ct"
value="attribute-value" />
or
<node-filter name="attribute-name" operator="neq"
value="attribute-value" />
or
<node-filter name="attribute-name" operator="nct"
value="attribute-value" />
The eq operator specifies that the system on which the tool can run must have exactly the attribute value
specified. It applies to any attribute name allowed in a system filter expression. The ge operator specifies
that a system on which the tool can run must have at least the attribute value specified. The lt and ge
operators can be used only with revision attributes, specifically OSRevision in the OS type filter and all of
the attributes of the Protocol type filter. The value of these attributes can be numeric or can be character
strings. The ct operator specifies that a system on which the tool can run must have an attribute that contains
the value specified. The neq operator specifies that a system on which the tool can run must not have the
exact attribute value specified. It applies to any attribute name allowed in a system filter expression. The
nct operator specifies that a system on which the tool can run on must have the attribute that does not
contain the value specified. For systems, the numeric valued attributes the filter expression can specify include
the OSRevision and Protocol Support attributes, whose values are version numbers. The attribute-name is
one value listed in the tables in the following section, or a protocol name from the ProtocolSupport attribute
of a system. The attribute-value is one possible system attribute value for attribute-name.
Attribute values are based on theDMTF CIM. Usually these values are defined during the system identification
process, which uses WBEM and SNMP to determine system attributes. For this release, valid OSName values
are HP-UX and Linux. For an OSName value of HP-UX, the OSRevision attribute values have the leading
alphabetic field removed (for example B.11.11 is stored as 11.11).
A system filter expression is used as part of an include filter expression. Each type allows a different category
of attribute names on which to be filtered.
Attribute names allowedFilter typeCategory
OSName, OSVendor, OSRevisionosOperating System
DeviceType, DeviceSubType, ModelhardwareHardware
Any protocol name, except HTTPprotocolProtocol Support
Can be any predefined system attribute or
any custom-system attribute.
otherOther
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