Which version of CCS are you using? 9.0 handles things differently than 8.x. Also, if talking 9.x, are you talking about the actual asset import or the data collection? Respond back and I can give you better answers.

Chris Tyrrell
Creative Breakthroughs, Inc.

Hi Chris, it looks like RMS just have to query all the machines in the entire domain (If the Asset Type is set to Windows Machines) even if we specific look for a machine via the hostname. One customer of mine has more than 10000 machines in each domain. Therefore, it becomes inefficient when we know which machine to import. Do you know any other way of import could work around this?

Regards
Charlie Chye

There are two ways to limit the BV-Control query scope to less than the entire domain.  The first way is in the asset import wizard on limit the scope using the equals operator.  This can be used to limit the import to specific machines or wildcarded names.  Alternatively a BV-Control query can be created and sheduled to run periodically using the RMS Console.  CCS can then be configured to import the assets from the CSV te scheduled query creates.

Kevin

The following support articles has the details along with a query file that would be used for the Windows machines BV-Control query:
http://service1.symantec.com/support/intrusiondetectkb.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/ee92773b2708cc0a8825763a007771cf?OpenDocument

Kevin

Thanks Kevin, the CSV works well. Just to share that the scope limit using equal operator doesn't work. Even when you specify a machine name using equalto operator, the RMS will have to go out to the whole domain to query. It doesn't work in a domain whereby there are > 10-20k machines.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards
Charlie Chye

Keep in mind that the filter pares down the assets after they have already been collected. It is a post-collection filter as opposed to a limiter on the front-end. As such, the RMS server goes out and collects data from ALL of the systems in the domain, returns those results to the R&A server, and then the R&A server filters out the results it receives.

You need to use the following fields to limit the search to specific machine:
"Domain/Workgroup Name" = "TestDom" AND "Machine Name (Pre-Windows 2000)" = "TestMachine01"

If you want to query more than one machine then the filter should be:
"Domain/Workgroup Name" = "TestDom" AND ("Machine Name (Pre-Windows 2000)" = "TestMachine01" OR "Machine Name (Pre-Windows 2000)" = "TestMachine02")

Remember you need to specify both domain and machine name.