Remote configuration of individual nodes

Remote configuration of Discovery nodes is different for OTbase Discovery nodes and OTbase Discovery Agent nodes. This guide will walk you through both.

OTbase Discovery

For configuring individual nodes from Discovery Manager just like you would with the local configuration client, simply select the node that you want to configure in the node list with left click, followed by a double-click. This will open an instance of the Asset Discovery configuration client that talks to the remote server.

The user interface and functionality is identical to the standard configuration client. The major difference is that you don't need to RDP to the node that you want to configure. Launching an interactive probe or saving probing results to a file is supported as well.

Discovery Manager and Asset Discovery do support concurrent operation, so as an example, you will see updates of the device table in a second or third configuration client if you have started a probe. Just keep in mind that for any configuration changes, no function locking is performed, so "the last person is right". Anyhow, all configuration changes will be reflected in all configuration clients.

OTbase Discovery Agent

Starting with OTbase Manager v14.7 and OTbase Discovery Agent v2.0, you can use the Discovery Manager to configure Discovery Agents. For configuring individual nodes from Discovery Manager you simply select the node that you want to configure in the node list with left click, followed by a double-click. This will open a dialog that talks to the remote Discovery Agent.

The dialog will allow you to change the values that are stored in the Discovery Agent's configuration file. For detailed information on the individual items, please visit Discovery Agent: Editing the Configuration File.

Please note that you need to check "Configuration Completed", if you want the Agent to start collecting data. This flags makes sure that after the first install, the Agent does not start working with an invalid configuration.