Owner's Manual

Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems 95
Step 2—Inventory Configuration – controls how often IT Assistant
retrieves a detailed inventory of all discovered systems
Step 3—Status Polling – controls how often IT Assistant retrieves the
health and network connectivity status of discovered systems
Step 4—Ranges – identifies specific ranges for IT Assistant to either limit
or expand its discovery, inventory, or polling tasks
Clicking any of the steps will take her 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 Settings
Jane begins by configuring the discovery settings for her systems using the
Discovery Configuration Settings dialog box. This dialog is displayed either
automatically when she clicks Step 1: Discovery Configuration from the
IT Assistant or by choosing Discovery Configuration from the menu bar.
Here, Jane enters information that IT Assistant will use for discovery.
These values remain unchanged and apply to the corresponding discovery
ranges that she will create later in this procedure. However, she can change
these values at any time.
To configure discovery settings in IT Assistant, Jane performs the
following steps:
1
Jane 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 In the dialog box under Initiate Device Discovery , Jane selects the period
she wants IT Assistant to perform discovery.
Jane selects all seven days of the week at 6:00:00 AM because the data
maybe dynamic, but she wants to select a non-peak period.
NOTE: It is recommended that you schedule discovery at non-peak times.
3 Under Discovery Speed , Jane uses the sliding bar to indicate how much
network bandwidth and system resources she wants to allocate to discovery.