Owner's Manual

8 Contents
Decisions to be Made Prior to Configuring
IT Assistant Discovery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Systems Management Protocols Needed
for Jane’s Network
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Initial Tasks for Finding Systems on
Jane’s Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Using IT Assistant to Find and Manage
Jane’s Networked Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Configuring Discovery Settings
. . . . . . . . . . 103
Configuring Inventory Settings
. . . . . . . . . . 104
Configuring Status Polling Settings. . . . . . . . 105
Configuring Discovery Ranges
. . . . . . . . . . 106
Changing Discovery, Inventory, and Status
Polling Settings After Original Setup . . . . . . . 109
Viewing Devices and Launching
Applications
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Warranty Information Launch . . . . . . . . . . 111
Creating Alert Action Filters and Alert Actions for
Jane’s Small-to-Medium Size Business
. . . . . . . . 111
Creating an Alert Action Filter
. . . . . . . . . . 112
Discovery in Tom’s Enterprise-Size Business
. . . . . 115
Configuring the Discovery Settings
. . . . . . . . 115
IP Subnet Ranges for Servers
. . . . . . . . . . 115
Configuring SNMP on Each Managed
System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Selecting An Appropriate Discovery
Time-Out Value for the Network
. . . . . . . . . 118
Configuring Discovery Configuration Settings . . 118
Configuring Inventory Settings
. . . . . . . . . . 120
Configuring Status Polling Settings
. . . . . . . . 120
Configuring Discovery Ranges
. . . . . . . . . . 121
Changing Discovery, Inventory, and Status
Polling Settings After Original Setup
. . . . . . . 126