It would be useful if there was a view or report to see the assignment status of variables configured in Nerdio manager. Ideally, the view or report would also show you where the variable is used. This would allow administrators to understand where variables are deployed and the impacts of altering or deleting them.
A view or report of variables assignments (Answered)
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Great idea, Luke!
We have a couple of other ideas (Add ability to change inherited variable for tenants from main integrations page – Nerdio Help Center and Ability to globally view all account level variable overrides – Nerdio Help Center) that seem to be in-line with what you're asking for.
Do you think these are what you're wanting or is the use-case you're thinking-of a little different?
Thank you Dave.
I worked with a partner this week who had loads of variables configured and the question came up there. They had 40 policies within a baseline and each of those policies had at least 1 variable set. They plan on reducing that number in the future and questioned if there was a way to see the variables usage/assignment without checking each policy individually.
It would also be useful with the the addition of the “Manage locations as variables” option (which is great) but also creates variables and assigns them by default. Currently, I have no quick way to identify where that variable is set without going into each policy individually.
Perhaps the variable name on the left (see in yellow) becomes a link where if you click on it, you see all the objects that the policy is currently assigned or used with.
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We also encourage the community to influence our decision through comments, votes, and feedback.
Ahh. Thanks, Luke.
Your use-case is related, but different.
It sounds like you're wanting to know how/where a variable might be in use so you can perform some maintenance on your variables and clean-up any that are not being used.
Definitely can see that being useful. 😎
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