Owner's Manual

Contents 9
Decisions to be Made Prior to Configuring
IT Assistant Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Systems Management Protocols Needed
for Jane’s Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Initial Tasks for Finding Systems on
Jane’s Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Using IT Assistant to Find and Manage
Jane’s Networked Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Configuring Discovery Settings . . . . . . . . . . 95
Configuring Inventory Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . 96
Configuring Status Polling Settings
. . . . . . . . 97
Configuring Discovery Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Changing Discovery, Inventory, and
Status Polling Settings After Original Setup
. . . . 101
Viewing Devices and Launching Applications . . . 101
Creating Alert Action Filters and Alert Actions for
Jane’s Small-to-Medium Size Business
. . . . . . . . 103
Creating an Alert Action Filter
. . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating an Alert Action
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Discovery in Tom’s Enterprise-Size Business
. . . . . 106
Configuring the Discovery Settings
. . . . . . . . 107
IP Subnet Ranges for Servers
. . . . . . . . . . . 107
Configuring SNMP on Each Managed System
. . 108
Selecting An Appropriate Discovery
Time-Out Value for the Network . . . . . . . . . . 109
Configuring Discovery Configuration Settings
. . . 110
Configuring Inventory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Configuring Status Polling Settings
. . . . . . . . 112
Configuring Discovery Ranges
. . . . . . . . . . . 113
Changing Discovery, Inventory, and
Status Polling Settings After Original Setup . . . . 117
Creating Alert Action Filters and Alert Actions for
Tom’s Large Enterprise
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118