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Devices View filtering options in SMACC

Hi,

I was looking to push out a couple of snowagent.config file changes via SMACC. I wanted initially to target a subset of machines (say 20-30) to test the change and make sure there is no adverse affect on clients.

 

Unfortunately the SMACC view editors filtering capabilities and columns that it exposes are somewhat limited. What I would ideally like to have done is provide a SQL-like IN statement e.g. WHERE Hostname IN (x,y,z.....). Short of using the Filter editor and manually adding lots of Equals e.g.SMACC View editorOther tools I have used (e.g. Altiris) allow for very fine grain control target views (basically allowing raw SQL to create lists of exactly the machines your are interested in). Is there no way to do the same in Snow?

 

Thanks

Colin


  • Hi Colin,

    It would be great to be able target a list of machines by adding them to a view, but sadly I've never seen any easy way to automate the view creation.

    I raised an idea back in 2019 requesting the ability to CSV import a list of computers into a view but it has never gotten any traction. https://ideas.snowsoftware.com/ideas/IDEAS-I-695

    In case you are interested the views are stored in the SnowInventory.inv.Filter SQL table.

    Hope you get a better answer.

    Tom

     

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  • Hi Colin,

    It would be great to be able target a list of machines by adding them to a view, but sadly I've never seen any easy way to automate the view creation.

    I raised an idea back in 2019 requesting the ability to CSV import a list of computers into a view but it has never gotten any traction. https://ideas.snowsoftware.com/ideas/IDEAS-I-695

    In case you are interested the views are stored in the SnowInventory.inv.Filter SQL table.

    Hope you get a better answer.

    Tom

     

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    • Thanks for the response Tom, kinda as I suspected. Checked your idea and upvoted although not holding my breath given its been a few years.

       

      SMACC for Inventory seems to be 'almost' there but is just lacking in a few things that would allow us to use it. Between the above issue (for rolling out config changes to test groups) as well as not being able to control agent updates via any other route than getting support to create our agent installers (to allow for encrypted PS scripts to be packaged) we instead have to continue to use other tooling (SCCM/Altiris) to control rollout across our estate.

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Devices View filtering options in SMACC