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Context Filters
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Context filters are applied to contexts of user and/or device data to provision the dynamic membership of a context.
Agent available
Check if a compatible agent is running, allowing local actions to be executed on the device.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Agent available |
| Available | Yes, No |
| Agent required | Yes |
Agent version
The agent version can be used to filter based on the running agent on the device. You could use this for rolling out a new agent automatically when the reported agent version on the device is not the latest for example.
Another example could be to create a collection where you specifically want all devices that are running an out of date version.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Agent version |
| Compare | Equal, Not Equal, Greater than, Less than |
| Version | 1.0.0.0 |
| Agent required | Yes |
Context
Check if the target is part of a context.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Context |
| Compare | Contains, Doesn’t contain |
| Context | Select the targeted context |
Device FQDN
Device Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) can be used to filter devices based on domain name for example.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Device FQDN |
| Compare | Equal, Not Equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | DEVICE.domain.net |
| Agent required | Yes |
Device name
Device name can be used to filter the collection to only include devices which start with a certain string for example. If your devices have names that start with a certain tag that identifies the department for example, you can easily use this filter to create a collection.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Device name |
| Compare | Equal, Not Equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | DEVICE |
| Agent required | Yes |
Device membership
Check whether or not the device is part of device collection.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Device membership |
| Compare | Contains, Doesn’t contain |
| Device collection | Select the targeted device collection |
HTTP header exists
This let's you filter based on the existence (or absence) of a named HTTP header. This can be used when a known proxy sets a unique header and you want to filter based on it.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | HTTP header exists |
| Name | Name of header |
| Exists | Yes, No |
| Agent required | No |
HTTP header value
Not unlike the 'HTTP header exists' filter, this goes one step further and lets you filter based on it's value.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | HTTP header value |
| Name | Name of header |
| Compare | Equal, Not Equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | Value to check for |
| Agent required | No |
Subnet
The subnet filter is pretty powerful. It doesn't require an agent, this can be used for every device. The source setting allows you to specify which reported IP address is taken into account.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Subnet |
| Network | IP address |
| Subnet | Subnetmask |
| Source |
|
| Matches | Yes, No |
| Agent required | No |
System manufacturer
The System manufacturer allows you to select on the manufacturer value of the device.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | System manufacturer |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
System model
The model of the connected device.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | System model |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User city
Compares the city attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User city |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User company
Compares the company attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User company |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User country
Compares the country attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User country |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User department
Compares the department attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User department |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User description
Compares the description attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User description |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User display name
Compares the display name attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User display name |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User fax
Compares the fax name attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User fax |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User job title
Compares the job title attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User job title |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User mail
Compares the mail attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User mail |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User membership
Checks if the user is a member of a group.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User membership |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Identity | Let's you select a group |
User mobile
Compares the mobile attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User mobile |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | Mobile |
User name
Compares the name attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User name |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User postal code
Compares the postal code attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User postal code |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User street
Compares the street attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User street |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
User telephone
Compares the telephone attribute of the user logging in.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | User telephone |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | The value matched against |
Platform
Platform is a filter to catch all devices running on a certain platform. Based on the match value you can either include or exclude devices from the collection. This allows you to capture all Windows devices or, based on the Matches setting, all Non-Windows devices.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Platform |
| Value | Windows, macOs, Linux, Android, iOs, Windows Phone, Unkown |
| Matches | Yes, No |
| Agent required | No |
Platform language
Check if the platform of the device is installed/configured with the specified language. Language of the platform can be checked within device diagnostics for the local device or viewed within an inventory view on the device.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Platform language |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | ISO 639-1 Language code identified by the platform for example: en-US for English (United States) |
| Agent required | Yes |
Platform type
Platform is a filter to catch all devices running on a certain platform type. Based on the match value you can either include or exclude devices from the collection. This allows you to capture all Workstations or Servers.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Platform type |
| Value | Workstation, Server |
| Matches | Yes, No |
| Agent required | Yes |
Platform user language
Check if the platform of the currently logged on user is installed/configured with the specified language. Language of the platform can be checked within user diagnostics for the local device.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Platform language |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Contains, Doesn't contain, Starts with, Ends with |
| Value | ISO 639-1 Language code identified by the platform for example: en-US for English (United States) |
| Agent required | Yes |
Platform architecture
Platform architecture allows you to filter devices on their bitwise platform (32-bit, 64-bit).
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Platform architecture |
| Value | x86, x64 |
| Matches | Yes, No |
| Agent required | Yes |
Platform version
Platform version allows you to filter devices based on the version of the operating system. This allows you to create separate contexts based on the Windows version that the devices are running.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Type | Platform version |
| Compare | Equal, Not equal, Greater than, Less than |
| Platform | Windows (custom), Windows Client, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 |
| Agent required | Yes |
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