Owner's Manual

98 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
Configuring Discovery Ranges
IT Assistant maintains a register of network segments that it uses to discover
devices. A discovery range can be a subnet, a range of IP addresses on a
subnet, an individual IP address, or an individual host name.
To identify her systems to IT Assistant, Jane must define a discovery range.
To define an include range, Jane performs the following steps:
1
Jane selects Discovery and Monitoring  Ranges from the menu bar.
The
Discovery Ranges navigation tree is displayed on the left side of the
IT Assistant window.
2 Jane expands Discovery Ranges , right-clicks Include Ranges and selects
New Include Range .
The
New Discovery Wizard starts.
NOTE: To exclude a specific system or host name from discovery, right-click
Exclude Range in the Discovery Ranges navigation tree and enter the name or
IP address of the system. In most small-to-medium businesses like Jane’s,
this option is not used.
3 In step 1 of the wizard, Jane enters an IP address (or range) or host name.
She clicks
Add to add multiple ranges of IP addresses or host names.
She clicks
Next to go to the next step.
NOTE: Acceptable values for the include range are subnet range, host name,
or IP address of a single system. Jane refers to the IP subnet ranges she
wrote down for her servers, desktop systems, and switches. On Jane’s list,
Jane may have 192.166.153.* and 192.166.154.*, where the first subnet range is
for Jane’s servers, the second subnet range is for Jane’s desktops, and the
switches are spread out on both subnets.
NOTE: The Import Node List utility offers a convenient way to specify a list of host
names, IP addresses, and subnet ranges for IT Assistant to discover. See the
IT Assistant Online Help for instructions on how to run the utility from the
command line. The importnodelist.exe file is in the bin directory of the
IT Assistant base directory.