Custom Retrieved Properties Generation

 This page will assist in creating retrieved properties that will help group your computers by incorporating outside information (such as a subnet / location mapping) so that the BES Client can report properties useful in reporting, grouping, etc.

Please read through the samples and instructions for common uses, details in creating the retrieved properties and special features.

Samples

  1. Computer Location by Subnet
  2. Computer Location by IP Range
  3. Grouping by Hostname

Instructions

  1. Open this page from a computer with the BES Console installed and opened (you must be logged in as a BES Console Administrator).
  2. Choose one of the four types of Customized Retrieved Properties. Fill in the relevance clause (if necessary).
  3. In the text area below, copy the list of Key/Value pairs. The Key/Value pairs should be separated by tabs (see below for more details).
  4. Alternately, if the information is in a text file you can import the file below the text area.
  5. Choose any parsing options that may be desired.
  6. Click the submit button. After you click "Submit", you will be prompted to Save or Open a file. Click "Open" and then when prompted in the BES Console to add a property and type in your password to add the property. (Alternatively, you can save the file, and double-click on it later to import the property.)

Usage Notes

  • Keys must be unique. Values do not need to be unique. If a key is listed twice either value may be used.
  • The keys and values are case sensitive.

Select a method for creating the retrieved property:

Create a retrieved property that maps Subnet to a Location.
Create a map of Subnet to Location using only the first two octets of the Subnet.
Use an IP range instead of a single value to specify Locations.
Map the results of a retrieved property to another set of bindings

Name of Retrieved Property

(This is the name that will appear in the BES Console)

Enter your relevance expression here:

Cut and paste Key to Value mapping here


OR

Submit File




Creation Option

Create a dynamic setting - Recommended for better performance (requires BES 5.0 and above).
Create a retrieved property.

Parsing Options

Remove Leading White Spaces
Remove Ending White Spaces
Remove Newlines
Remove Carriage Returns
Remove CIDR information from Subnets (i.e., "27.45.1.0/16" reduces to "27.45.1.0")
Limit multiple results to unique values.
Remove text between characters (), {}, and [] (Example: "NY, NY [downtown]" reduces to "NY, NY")
Use the first space character as the delimiter for the Key/Value pairs.

Sorting Options

Sorting by keys or values only changes the order in which Key/Value pairs appear in the resulting BESRP file. The results for either sorting method are equivalent. Sorting may make altering data by hand after it is generated easier.

Sort results by values.
Sort results by keys.


Note: If some entries are not valid, for example no value is specified for a key, the line will be ignored. (If you would like to view entries that were not included in the final retrieved property, save the file generated by clicking submit and then open this file in a text editor. Look for a section at the end of the file marked with <!-- --> flags.