Device Search on AOS-CX

In the MultiEdit MultiEdit mode allows configuring single or multiple AOS-CX switches using the CLI syntax. You can also view the difference between the Central running configuration and the switch running configuration. mode, the Contextual Search Engine allows you to filter a set of AOS-CX switches using search queries. The search queries can contain one or more search terms in the format, label:value. For example: model:6300F, where model is the label and 6300F is the value. When a search query contains a list of terms, by default, all terms are required to match. For example, the search query "model:8400 current-firmware:10.04.0001" will return only 8400 switches running 10.04.0001 firmware. The filtered switch details are displayed in the Devices table.

The search queries can contain the following information:

• Device attributes—Attributes that denote the device details such as the model and current-firmware.
• Wildcard characters—Asterisk (*) and question mark (?) are allowed in search queries.
• Boolean operators—For complex queries, you can use the boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, + (the plus sign), and - (the minus sign).
• Grouping characters—Multiple search terms with logical operators can be grouped using parenthesis ().

You must use quotes (" ") for any strings with spaces and for the default, running-config, and startup-config search. A default search is specified by entering quoted text instead of a label:value search term. The default search runs the search against the running configurations of the devices. For example, entering "ntp server172.16.0.100" searches for that string in the running configuration of all managed devices in the MultiEdit mode. Multiple search terms can be used in a query and can be combined using logical operators.