Algorius Net Viewer Manual | Device Scanning Wizard

General Information

With Device Scanning Wizard you can scan devices by various means. You can easily find services, launched on particular devices, database instances, game servers etc. You can also define current device status, CPU temperature, free space on drives etc.

To launch the wizard, select CommandsStandardScan Devices in main window menu. The Device Scanning Wizard window appear:

At the first page of the Wizard you should choose which devices you want to scan:

  • Devices on all maps
  • Devices on the current map
  • Selected devices on the current map

Enable the checkbox Only the following type of devices if you want to scan only specific type of devices, e.g. servers only. List shows only those types of devices which exist on the maps.

Enable the checkbox Only devices with the following sensor if you want to scan only devices with specific sensors, e.g. SNMP only. List includes only those sensors which are used on the maps.

Enable the checkbox Only active devices if you want to skip inactive devices during scanning. It will make the scanning faster.

Next step: Sensors.

Sensors

At this step Wizard offers you to choose device sensors. List of sensors is taken from monitoring settings.

Next step: Device Scanning.

Device Scanning

At this step Wizard performs device scanning. Table aggregates the list of scanned devices, their names, types, addresses, sensor, scanning result. Next step: Processing Results.

Processing Results

At this step you should choose how you want the results to be processes.

Enable the checkbox Select found devices on the maps to show the devices on all maps when Wizard is completed.

Enable the checkbox Create report to create a report after Wizard completion.

Enable the checkbox Assign scanning value to device attribute and choose an attribute to assign found values to specified attribute of the appropriate devices. Values will be assigned to devices on the captured maps only.