Configure Discovery Schedule

Overview:

This section allows you to configure Auto Discovery Schedules in HelpSTAR.  Using the Network Audit Service, you can remotely collect detailed hardware and software information about the machines on the networks you manage.  This information will than be automatically stored in the HelpSTAR database. In order for the Discovery to work, the Audit Service must have been installed and configured.

Auto Discovery will scan the computers on your network to collect detailed hardware and software information for you.

1. Ribbon Toolbar:

Display

Select where Running and/or Paused Rules should appear in the Discovery Configuration Schedule listing.

Discovery Schedule

• Stop: Stop a selected discovery configuration

• Rename: Modify the name of a selected discovery configuration

• Delete: Remove a selected discovery schedule

Update

• Save: Save a new schedule or modifications to an existing one

View

• ·Audit History: View history for a selected Discovery Schedule.

2. Discovery Schedule Configuration Listing:

This section lists all Discovery Schedule Configurations that currently exist.

3. General:

• Audit Name: Enter a relevant name for your audit

• Description: Enter a short description for the purpose of the audit.

4. Schedule:

This section allows you to configure the following:

• Occurs: The days that the Audit will run (daily, weekly)

• Frequency: The times that the Audit will run (hours, minutes)

5. Workstation Selection:

This section allows you to select which workstations you would like to include in your scan.

You can select how the workstations should be configured for Discovery.  Your options are:

• Domain: Selecting workstations by the domain name that they belong to.

• Machine Name or IP Address: Entering workstation names, domain names, or IP addresses of the systems to be audited, separated by semi colons.

i.e.:

WorkStation1.domain.com;Workstation2.domain.com;…

• IP Range: Specifying the range of IP address which you would like to be scanned.

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See Also:

Configure the Network Audit Service

Troubleshooting Network Audits

Document Discovered Hardware

Document Discovered Software

Audit By Login Script

Audit Current Workstation

Audit History

Client Audit Add-In