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OmniVista SafeGuard Manager Administration Guide
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Chapter 5: Device Configuration
3 You can edit the device properties: general, connectivity, SNMP server settings,
and device settings using the following attributes:
Table 31 Edit Device Attributes
Attribute Name Description
General Properties:
Name A unique name of the device that you are editing.
Managed Select the Yes checkbox if the device is to be managed. If you
deselect the box, the device will not be polled, basically the
device is disconnected from OmniVista SafeGuard Manager
without deleting.
Region Name of the region where the device is located. Mapped to
SysLocation.
Building Name of the building in which the device is located. Mapped to
SysLocation.
Enable Application Flow
Connection
Select the Yes checkbox if you want to collect the application
flow data. This is useful for diagnostic purposes.
Associated Template From the dropdown list, select a template to associate to this
device.
Deploy Template Only Select the Yes checkbox if you want the device to be configured
only with the associated template. Selecting this checkbox
ensures that only the objects that are associated with the
selected template are deployed on the selected device and
objects that are associated with the device are ignored.
If you deselect the box, the device is configured with the
template objects and also with the device objects.
Connectivity Properties:
IP Address IP address of the device you are adding.
SNMP Community String
(Read)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) read community
name that was configured when the device was initially set up.
SNMP Community
(Read/Write)
SNMP read/write community name that was configured when the
device was initially set up.
SNMP Server Settings:
System Name Name of the SNMP server.
System Contact Name of the device administrator.
System Location Location of the SNMP server.