Device information is arranged in a number of pages as explained in the table below:

Overview	Overview Device overview Usage tracking Basic device tracking information. Details that are collected for all devices, which makes it possible to track device usage over time Details Device statistics and additional information
Setup	Advanced Advanced settings

System

Here device type, current user, domain, operating system and error messages, if any, will be shown.

Hardware

Here, basic hardware information will be shown.

It is required that basic auditing is enabled in order for DomainScan to collect all information.
Furthermore, DomainScan will only be able to collect processor, memory and disc information from Windows based devices.

DomainScan also collect some basic peripherals, such as USB and floppy drive support.
The entire list of detectable peripherals is:

	Firewire	Firewire (IEEE 1394) controller detected
	Floppy	Floppy drive controller detected
	Infrared	IR / Infrared adapter detected
	PC Card	PC Card (PCMCIA) controller detected
	USB	USB controller detected

In order to track device usage, DomainScan monitors some key information such as Operating System, service pack level, IP address, current user, installed memory, which can be used to create a typical usage pattern for the device.

DomainScan will store each change it detects, so that a usage timeline can be created. This tracking functionality is enabled for all devices and does not require additional license units.

In Filter one can select what time interval that are to be seen.

The earliest date that can be selected is 14 days prior to the lastest scan cycle.
Tip: Place the mouse above the date selector to see the date.

Differential mode
The list can be seen in two ways:

In the default view, all information is shown for each record, and information that has changed since the previous entry is marked with green text.

The other way is enabled, when the Differential option is selected. Here, only the earliest record is shown in full, and all newer entries will only show the changed between records.

This list shows additional information about the device.
For instance one can see the when the device were first detected by DomainScan, the absolute path for per-device files etc.

Options

Include this device in every scan cycle
If this option is enabled, then DomainScan will force this device to be included in every scan cycle. This can be useful, if the device isn’t discovered by the Discovery service (for instance, if the device is a non-Windows device).

The downside of enabling this option is that the scan cycle period may be slightly longer.

Attempt to scan the device, even if the ping request fails
If this option is enabled, then DomainScan will try to monitor the devices even though it may be non-responding.

However this is generally not recommended as this may increase the scan time significantly, and even cause network problems on the host server.

Obsolete

Auto obsolete
This setting can be used to automatically mark devices as obsolete if they haven’t appeared on the network for a number of days.

If Now is pressed, then DomainScan will automatically enter the number of days since the device were online the last time.

Note: The minimum period is 1 day, so it’s not possible to force an online device as being obsolete.