Search with FQDN

[Fossy777]

I wish I could search a PC by FQDN.

I know when I begin typing it´s name, it gets automatically completed. But I want to use the link to quicksearch externally for automatic linking to assets and I only can search for FQDNs there, not for netbios names. If you search for a specific item and the search string is unique, you don´t land on a search results page but directly on the item´s page.

Imagine you have 2 domains (contoso.local and corp.inc) in different networks, in each one a PC with the same netbios name "PC13". Actually LanSweeper finds both when you search for their netbios names and lets you decide on a search reaults page, what item you meant - but it does not find any of both when you search for their FQDNs "PC13.contoso.local" or "PC13.corp.inc".

[Fossy777]

Just to add as an information: if you search for a network device (SNMP devices like a switch), the search by FQDN works. So Lansweeper here handles network devices different to PCs.

What do you think about my feature request? Will it get implemented?

[Fossy777]

Thank yo very much for your answer.

But sorry, that does not help me at all. I simply want to use the URL "https://lansweeperserver/quicksearch.aspx?q=" with a FQDN, so in my example "https://lansweeperserver/quicksearch.aspx?q=PC13.corp.inc" and that does not work. To such a field as you posted, I have no direct link to jump in.

To go in detail: we want to mod our nagios system to paste links to the relevant assets in LanSweeper in it´s alert mails. This way it would work but it does not work because the search box does no FQDN searches for Windows machines as I told in my previous post.

[Bart_E]

For performance reasons, the web console search bar doesn't search all database fields. We may add the ability to search FQDN in a future release but for now, we recommend creating a basic SQL report based on tblassets.FQDN using our report builder. Afterwards, you can search for FQDN using the top search boxes.