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Searching the Insight Database
This section provides the following information:
l About Insight Search
l Search Example
About Insight Search
Use the Insight Search feature to query the Insight database.
You can search for the following entities:
l Clients by MAC address, hostname, or IP address
l Usernames
l W-ClearPass servers by name or IPaddress
l Network access devices by name or IPaddress
You can add clients and users to the Watchlist from Search results. For details, see Adding or Removing Users
from the Watchlist on page 704.
The Insight Search window is always available at the top of every page.
Search works on all pages except the Report Configuration and Alert Configuration pages.
Figure 702: Search Window
Search Example
Let's take the example of searching for a MACaddress:
1. Start entering the MACaddress into the Search window.
As you type in the MAC address in this example, Search discovers that there are two MACaddresses with the
same initial characters:
Figure 703: Search Locating Matching Entities
2. To locate the desired MACaddress:
a. Click on the suggestion and see which MAC address you are looking for from the list displayed.
b. Or refine your search by typing more characters to further specify the search entity.
In this example, the MACaddress is identified as an Endpoint.