Owner's Manual
Managing Jobs and Tasks 75
A connection profile contains protocol settings and credentials required by
the discovery and inventory modules to communicate with remote agents on
the device. Discovery and inventory of devices may not work correctly without
this association. Associate Dell Devices task should be set to run periodically
to reflect changes in the network topology or protocol settings, and to create
associations for new devices.
To create this task:
1
Click
Manage
Jobs and Tasks
to display the
Task Ma nagement Por tal
.
2
In the
Jobs and Tasks Quick Start
Web part, click
Create a new job or
task
.
3
In the
Create New Task
page, under
Dell Tasks
Other
folder, select the
Associate Dell Devices
task.
4
On the right pane, select the default connection profile and under
Select
the target devices you want to associate with the selected connection
profile
, select the devices discovered through the
Import Microsoft Active
Directory or Import Domain Membership/WINS task
.
5
Select
Apply to
Resources
.
6
On the
Select Resources
page, click
Add Rule
in the
THEN
drop down,
select
exclude resources not in resource list
and click the ellipses (
...
).
7
From the group of
Available Resources
, under
Group
, select the devices
you want to run the task on and then click
OK
.
The devices that you selected is displayed on the
Create New Task
page.
8
Schedules the task to run right away.
NOTE: The Associate Dell Devices is a Server task and can be created and run
only on the Symantec Management Console. Therefore, the Quick Run and Target
Selection options under New Schedule are not displayed.
To view the result of this task:
1
Click
Manage
All Resources
.
2
The associated Dell devices are now displayed under
Organizational
Views
All Devices
.
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