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- Open —Edits a selected authentication object (see Authenticator Editor on page 82).
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Print —Create an Acrobat report of the items displayed in the inventory (change the filter and
click
Go to change this display). You must have the free Acrobat reader installed for this to
function. See Adobe’s website to download and install this application.
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Delete —Removes the selected authentication object from those listed.
-
Import / Export —This appears in the menu accessible in the Action button, and imports /
exports information about all authentications as a text file. Exported files can serve as
backups or as seed files, and can be imported by clients running on other servers.
CAUTION:
The exported file exposes passwords in plain text.
NOTE:
This report limits the number of columns to those that can fit on a single page width.
- Help —Opens the help for this screen.
Creating and Modifying Authentication Objects
The process for creating and editing Authentication Objects is similar to other managers: click New
to create a new object, or select an existing object from the list and click
Open to modify it. Delete
an object by first selecting it and then clicking
Delete . See the Authenticator Editor on page 82 for
specific details about the entries associated with authentication objects.
Figure 4-9. Authentication Type
NOTE:
The types that appear in this dialog depend on the installed device drivers.
When performing deep discovery, you must typically have the correct device driver installed and at
least one authentication object (for example: an SNMP authentication object specifying a public
read community). If you want to interact with a device using a command-line interface (like
Telnet), you must create a Telnet/SSH authentication object.