HP Device Manager 4.6 - Installation and Update Guide

HPDM Agent parameters
Although the GUIs differ a little between Windows and Linux, their parameters are the same. The following are explanations
for each parameter.
• Agent Version—Indicates the current version of HPDM Agent.
• Current Gateway—Indicates the IP address of the HPDM Gateway that is currently managing this HPDM Agent. You can
change this value to make the HPDM Agent report to another HPDM Gateway with either an IP address or a hostname.
The HPDM Agent refreshes this value into a valid IP address every time it receives a task from an active HPDM Gateway.
• Backup Gateway—Indicates the IP address of a backup HPDM Gateway. The HPDM Agent tries to find an HPDM Gateway
to work with on startup. If the current HPDM Gateway is not available, the HPDM Agent attempts to connect to the backup
HPDM Gateway.
• Pull Interval—Indicates the time interval that the HPDM Agent connects to the HPDM Gateway and asks for a task.
Normally, tasks are pushed from the HPDM Gateway to the HPDM Agent when the HPDM Gateway gets a task.
Sometimes the HPDM Agent is running on a device behind NAT, which means that the HPDM Gateway has no approach to
connect to the HPDM Agent. Tasks for devices behind NAT can only be executed after the HPDM Agent establishes a
connection to the HPDM Gateway and pulls tasks from the HDPM Gateway.
• Log Level—Indicates which log levels should be written into the log file. When set at a particular level, errors of that level
and higher are logged. There are three levels for HPDM Agent: INFORMATION, WARNING, and ERROR (from low to high).
See the HP Device Manager 4.6 Administrator Guide for more details about logging.
• Delay Scope—Indicates a time range during which the HPDM Agent sends a startup report to the HDPM Gateway after
startup. The HPDM Agent randomly selects a time in that range and sends a startup report. This avoids net traffic peak.
For example, suppose there are 100 devices. All of them have Delay Scope set to 10 minutes, and you send a reboot task
to them all. The 100 devices all reboot, and then their HPDM Agents start. They do not report in at the 10th minute after
that. Each of them uses a random time between 0–10 minutes. So, all 100 devices report within 10 minutes, avoiding net
traffic peak.
• Get Pre-Assign Groups from DHCP Tag—Makes the Agent report with grouping values to get from the DHCP server. See
Configuring DHCP tags for information on how to set grouping values on a DHCP server for HPDM.
• Use Static Custom Groups—Allows you to set custom grouping values for this device manually. The Agent ignores
values from the DHCP server and reports the custom settings.
• Group Name—Indicates the group. There are seven fields to choose from. You can set some or all of them.
• Value—Indicates the grouping value for the specified file.
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