Owner's Manual

110 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
Configuring Discovery Settings for the First Time in the Enterprise Network
Like Jane, if this is the first time IT Assistant has been launched since
installation, Tom is presented with a welcome screen indicating that
IT Assistant has not yet been configured. The four basic steps of
configuration are listed:
Step 1: Discovery Configuration
Step 2: Inventory Configuration
Step 3: Status Polling
Step 4: Ranges
Clicking any of the steps will take him to the corresponding dialog box under
the Discovery and Monitoring menu bar in IT Assistant. Steps 1 through 3
are single-window dialog boxes; step 4 is a wizard-based procedure for
defining discovery ranges.
Configuring Discovery Configuration Settings
Tom begins by configuring the discovery settings for his systems using
the Discovery Configuration Settings dialog box. This dialog is displayed
either automatically when he clicks Step 1: Discovery Configuration from the
IT Assistant welcome screen or by choosing Discovery Configuration from
the menu bar. Here, Tom enters information that IT Assistant will use for
discovery. These values remain unchanged and apply to all the discovery
ranges he will create later in this procedure. However, he can change these
values at any time using this dialog box.
To configure discovery settings in IT Assistant for a large enterprise,
Tom performs the following steps:
1
Tom selects Discovery and Monitoring  Discovery Configuration from
the IT Assistant menu bar.
The
Discovery Configuration Settings dialog box appears. Enable Device
Discovery
is selected by default.
2 Under Initiate Device Discovery , Tom selects when he wants IT Assistant
to perform discovery.
Tom wants to perform discovery every day, so he selects
Every Week On ,
each day of the week, and 2:00 a.m. for the start time. His network traffic
is the lightest at this time.