Owner's Manual

112 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
Tom sets inventory for weekly on Saturday at 3:00 a.m.
3 Under Inventory Speed , Tom uses the sliding bar to indicate how much
network bandwidth and system resources he wants to allocate to inventory.
NOTE: The faster you set the inventory speed, the more network resources
discovery will consume. Faster inventory speeds may impact network
performance adversely.
4 Tom clicks OK .
NOTE: IT Assistant versions 8.0 and later can display the inventory information for
printers, tapes, and storage devices. For more information, see the Dell
OpenManage IT Assistant Online Help.
Configuring Status Polling Settings
Next, Tom defines status polling settings for his systems. IT Assistant
performs a power and connectivity health check for discovered devices,
determining whether a device is operating normally, is in a non-normal state,
or is powered down. Status messages in IT Assistant include healthy, warning,
critical, and powered down. Status icons also indicate if a system is not
instrumented, if there is no information for the system, or the state the
system was in when it was last powered down.
To set status polling settings, Tom performs the following steps:
1
Tom selects Discovery and Monitoring  Status Polling Configuration
from the menu bar.
The
Status Polling Configuration Settings dialog box is displayed. Enable
Status Polling
is selected by default.
2 Under Status Polling Interval , Tom selects the interval he wants
IT Assistant to use to perform status polling.
3 Under Status Polling Speed , Tom uses the sliding bar to indicate how
much network bandwidth and system resources he wants to allocate to
status polling.
NOTE: The faster you set the status polling speed, the more network
resources discovery will consume. Faster speeds may impact network
performance.
4 Tom clicks OK .