Similar to Microsoft® SMS 2003, a system
administrator can use collections to logically group systems
managed by SCCM. Collections represent a computer or a group of
computers to which actions can be targeted. Collections can be
static, containing specified named computers, or they can be
dynamic, basing the members of the collection on a query of
properties for those computers. Using a dynamic collection, an
administrator can create an HP Server Collection to group and
identify all managed HP servers in the environment.
To create an HP Server collection to target
servers for updates, perform the following steps. The example
queries can be added to any existing collection to identify HP
servers.
Open the Configuration Manager Administrator
console.
Expand Site
Database>Computer Management, right-click
Collections, and then select
New Collection. The New
Collection wizard appears.
Enter HP
Server or an appropriate name in the Name field. This is the
name of the collection. Click Next.
Click the Query toolbar button.
NOTE: Do not
save your query until all steps are completed, or you might be
required to create a new query.
Enter an appropriate name for the query to
be created in the Name field, such as HP/Compaq servers. In the Resource
class box, select System
Resource. Click the Edit
Query Statement button.
Select the Criteria tab, and then click the
New toolbar button.
On the General tab, click the Select button.
Enter the options as shown in the following
figure, and click OK.
Enter the remaining Criterion Properties as
shown in the following figure, and click OK.
Repeat steps 6 through 9 using the following
input:
In step 9 enter compaq in the Value field.
Repeat steps 6 through 9 using the following
input:
In step 9 enter hewlett-packard in the Value
field.
Repeat steps 6 through 9 using the following
inputs:
In step 8, select system for the Attribute class and
System Role for the
Attribute.
In step 9, enter server in the Value field.
You now have three criteria statements.
Select the first two criteria statements (first three lines), and
then click the parenthesis
toolbar button to join the two query statements.
With the statements still selected, click
the and/or toolbar button
to change the
query to an "or" statement.
Confirm that your queries look the same as
the Criteria shown in the following figure.
To continue the New Collection Wizard, click
OK, OK.
Modify the collection update schedule as
needed.
To complete the wizard, click Next, Next, and Finish.
If you want to add additional filters to
your collections, the following query statements can be added to
the query criteria to further identify server type and models of
the HP servers:
Computer System.Model lowercase is like
"%proliant%" for filtering ProLiant servers
Computer System.Model lowercase is like
"%bl%" for filtering ProLiant BL servers
Computer System.Model lowercase is like
"%ml%" for filtering ProLiant ML servers
Computer System.Model lowercase is like
"%dl%" for filtering ProLiant DL servers
System Resource.Operating System Name and
Version is like "%Server 5.0%" for filtering Windows 2000
servers
System Resource.Operating System Name and
Version is like "%Server 5.2%" and Computer System.System Type is
like "%x86%" for filtering x86 Windows 2003 servers
System Resource.Operating System Name and
Version is like "%Server 5.2%" and Computer System.System Type is
like "%x64%" for filtering x64 Windows 2003 servers
System Resource.Operating System Name and
Version is like "%Server 6.0%" and Computer System.System Type is
like "%x86%" for filtering x86 Windows 2008 servers
System Resource.Operating System Name and
Version is like "%Server 6.0%" and Computer System.System Type is
like "%x64%" for filtering x64 Windows 2008 servers
System Resource.Operating System Name and
Version is like "%Server 6.1%" and Computer System.System Type is
like "%x64%" for filtering Windows 2008 R2 servers and it is
supported on SCCM SP2 environment
to join the two query statements.
to change the
query to an "or" statement.