Working with Filters

Index

• Overview
• Group, Device, and Interface Filters
• Attribute Filters
  • Timeseries Attributes
  • Configuration, State and Status Attributes

Overview

Within Statseeker, Auto-Grouping, Custom Reporting, Event Management as well as Threshold and Alert configuration all allow you to apply various filters to target the elements of your network that you want the rule or configuration to apply to. These filters may be group filters, device or interface filters, attribute filters, or a combination of any of these.

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Group, Device, and Interface Filters

Group, Device, and Interface filters are very quick and simple to implement.

Group filters will be:

• Is a member of at least one of the specified groups
• Must be a member of all of the specified groups
• A combination of the previous two configurations

Device and Interface filters are going to be “is one of the specified devices/interfaces”.

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Attribute Filters

Attribute filters refer to the OID’s or Statseeker configuration fields available for each entity (each device, interface, or configuration object) so which attributes are available varies from entity to entity.

Timeseries Attributes

Some Attributes will be pointing to timeseries data such as byte counts, load percentages, temperatures etc.
Filters against these Attributes will typically be along the lines of
{Entity} {Attribute} {format} {operator} {value}.

For example:

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Configuration, State and Status Attributes

Other Attributes will be referring to configuration information (names, descriptions, location information, software/firmware versions, etc.) and state or status information. Filters against these attributes will typically be simple string matching, but for some configuration attributes, and all of the state and status attributes, you need to know what the values could be in order to be able to filter against them.

We have included an abridged version of this information below, presenting only those fields that require specific values. Information on all fields for an object can be found in the API documentation, see API Resource Level Endpoint Reference.

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