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

Overview	Overview Device overview Graphs Ping, processor and memory graphs Management Device statistics and additional information 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
Organization	Task deadline Set a deadline regarding the device Notes User-defined notes regarding the device
Audit	Audit Audit information
Monitors	Monitors Monitors and responses that are assigned to this device Notifications Notifications from the device
Setup	Settings Configure login, device description and other options Monitoring Configure audit and monitor/response settings 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:

	Battery	Battery device detected
	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

Information about installed security products are also collected:

	Antivirus	Shown if an active antivirus product was detected.
	Antispyware	Shown if an active antispyware product was detected.
	Firewall	Shown if an active firewall product was detected.

If per-device logging is enabled, DomainScan Service will store certain information in graph files, which will be shown here.

DomainScan records information about:

• Ping time
• Processor load and frequency.
• Memory load and capacity.

By default, each graph will display information from the last 14 days. In order to see all recorded information, right click on the graph and select Show.

Right click on the graph to copy specific values, the graph image or the entire list.

The purpose of this page is to help one perform managing tasks – that is, determine the value of the device, the time it was purchased and store guarantee and SLA information.


System Owner

Set the owner of the device. One can select any known user as the system owner.

Purchase

Purchase date: Date of purchase. By default, DomainScan will insert the day that the device was first found online. However, one can alter this as necessary.

Insert found date: Click on the text to manually insert the date where the device was first found by DomainScan.

Guarantee period: Here, one can specify the number of months in where the device is in guarantee. The default is 0, which means that the guarantee period is not set.

If a guarantee period has been set, then the warranty end-date will be shown to the right.

Value

Purchase value: Enter the price for the device here.

Yearly devaluation: A device devaluates over time, and with this option, one can specify how much this is per year with either a value or with a percentage. If any option is set and given, then the current value will be calculated, and shown to the right.

Service

Customer number: If there is a specific supplier-specified number for the device, for instance, the number one must provide in case the device needs to be fixed then this field can be used to store the number.

SLA number: If the device is governed by a general service (level) agreement, then one can insert this number in this field.

SLA, end of service: Here, one can enter the date, where the SLA service ends.

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 the date when the device where first detected on the network.
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.

The task deadline can be used to help one remember a certain date, where one must perform an action on the device – for instance upgrade to a newer operating system.

Combined with the note functionality, this may assist the IT department in improving documentation and ease the general workflow between supporters.

The note functionality can be used as one seems fit. However, the intended usage is to place notes about the devices, such as configuration details, service agreement details, repair details etc.
With this usage, one can use the note functionality as a general lightweight configuration management tool.

The note is stored as a standard RTF file on the server where DomainScan Service is running.
It is stored in the per-device folder for the particular device, and can therefore be opened by any person that has access to the server.
One can also store additional files in this folder, and by doing this, store information in a structured manner.

On this page, audit information is shown.

The amount of information depends on the setup for the particular device, but it may include information about:
Memory, processors, hardware units, disk partitions, installed programs, running services, network information and much more.

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

The earliest date that can be selected is the date when the device where first detected on the network.
Tip: Place the mouse above the date selector to see the date.

Noticeable information that is collected by DomainScan

Virtual devices
DomainScan detects virtual devices and, if possible, it will try to detect the physical host server as well as the vendor of the virtualization software.
The physical host server may not be found immediately when a virtual server is detected. If this occurs, then the host server is most likely found in the following scan.

Multicore processor detection
DomainScan is capable of detecting multicore processors. If this is the case, then the processor line will be blue to indicate that the physical processor count is not the same as the logical processor count. However, DomainScan will still show information about each logical processor.

Installable memory detection
DomainScan is capable of retrieving information about the number of memory sockets in the device, and the maximum size of memory that can be inserted.

On this page one can select the Monitors and responses that are assigned to the device.

Domain assigned monitors cannot be removed and domain assigned monitors will cause that device assigned monitors will be removed.

Selection of monitors and responses

Monitors

Responses

Responses that can be triggered by any monitor will automatically be executed if the trigger conditions are met by the event that is created by the monitor.

Responses that are set only to respond to approved monitors are prefixed with *.
To allow for a monitor to trigger the response, simply check the checkbox to the left of the monitor and press ok.
Once the monitor-response pairing is set, then the response will be triggered by the monitor if the trigger conditions are met.

If DomainScan creates notifications about the device, then these are shown here.

A notification may be that the device is offline or that an error occurred while scanning the device.

Connect as

If another username/password is to be used to connect to the device, then select the proper Security login.

The effective login will be written below the select box, and can be one of the following:


If SNMP require an alternative login (other than 'public'), then one can also specify a SNMP login.

Description

Normally this is automatically set by DomainScan.
On devices with SNMP data collection, description will contain the basic identification string that is returned by the SNMP interface.
If data is collected via the WMI interface, then it is the computer description value that is assigned.

To assign a description manually, then select Assign and type a suitable device description.

Options

Enable WMI: Uncheck this box to disable the use of the WMI interface on this device.

Enable SNMP: Uncheck this box to disable the use of the SNMP interface on this device.

Note: If both the WMI and the SNMP interface is disabled, then DomainScan will only be able to monitor that the device is online or offline.

Notifications


Ignore device

If checked, then DomainScan will ignore the device.
When the device is ignored, it will be listed as offline in the device list.Furthermore, monitors will triggers events on the device, if the monitors are set to create events if the device is offline.

Device audit

Use domain settings
If this option is set, then this device will be audited according to the settings that are set by the domain.
If one needs a special audit setup for this device, uncheck the option, and it will be possible to alter the audit for this particular device.

Enable Audit
Uncheck this box to disable auditing on this device.

Select the amount of information that is collected on the device. When the device is created, settings from the domain are inherited, but this can be changed per device.

Basic	Information about the processor, network address, memory and disk devices. Information about the operating system is also included. Note Basic audit will automatically be enabled, if any other audit option has been selected
Server	Collect detailed information about CPUs, cache, memory, disk partitions and system devices
Network adapter	Collect information about network adapters
Shares	Collect information about shares (disk and printers)
Multimedia information	Collect information about the monitors, graphic adapters, mice, keyboards and device connectors
Service information	Collect information about the defined services, including kernel and stopped services
Processes	Collect information about the running processes
Hotfix information	Collect information about hotfixes that are installed
Installed software	Collect information about programs that are installed Note: This audit will gather information about all programs that are installed with Windows Installer. Therefore, it will not recognize all installed products. Furthermore, this operation is very time consuming (it may take minutes). Therefore, it is possible to disable the ability to gather information about installed programs in Advanced options. Collecting information about installed programs may significantly slow the scanning process. Also, this may not work on default installations on Windows Server 2003. It may be necessary to install the Windows Installer Provider(MSI provider) in order to be able to retrieve information about installed products.

Force audit in the next scan cycle
If checked, then a hardware audit will be performed by DomainScan Service at the next scan.
Note: Audit will automatically be performed in the next scan cycle, if the audit setup has changed.

Monitors and responses

Enable monitors: Uncheck this box to disable monitor support on the device.

    Inherit domain monitors: Uncheck this box to disable domain monitors

Enable responses: Uncheck this box to disable that responses can be triggered by events cretated by this device.

    Inherit domain responses: Uncheck this box to disable that domain assigned responses can be triggered.

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.

Tracking
Per-device settings
Drive letter
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.