Relevancy to omit certain computer names

system · July 30, 2009, 3:29pm

(imported topic written by ErinC91)

Hi, I’m trying to create a relevance clause to ensure a custom action never gets applied to certain machine names.

I have something like the following but it’s always coming out as TRUE on the machine names I want omitted regardless. (using QnA)

(name of operating system = “WinXP”) AND computer name != (“PC1” OR “PC2”)

I also tried

(name of operating system = “WinXP”) AND ((computer name != “PC1”) OR (computer name != “PC2”) OR (computer name != “PC3”))

I feel I’m missing something fairly obvious here. Please assist, thanks.

Noah · July 30, 2009, 9:15pm

(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

Try:

(name of operating system = "WinXP)

AND

((it != “foo” AND it != “bar” AND it != “baz”) of (computer name as lowercase))

You need ANDs when checking the names.

Also, if you do everything in lowercase you avoid any typos with the list of machine names.

system · July 31, 2009, 1:46pm

(imported comment written by ErinC91)

Thanks Noah, that works great. I knew it was something obvious!

In this instance, the inclusion of lowercase un-necessarily complicates it, since I exported the machine names from BigFix into Excel, so they were accurate. Testing it now and it looks fine, thanks again.