Preferences Page

The maximum transfer rate for uploading and downloading files to and from the discovery node is defined in the shellGlobalBandwidthLimit parameter in globalSettings.xml File (Data Flow Management > Adapter Management > Resources > Packages > AutoDiscoveryContent > Configuration Files).

Alternatively, you can view or set this value in the Shell Bandwidth Limit setting of the Management Zone General Settings. For details, see the section describing how to configure global settings for Management Zones in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help.

Select to configure scanner-based inventory discovery.

Specifies whether the scanner can be downgraded to an earlier version.

Default: Enabled

Specifies whether the Scanner can be upgraded if a newer version is available.

Default: Enabled

Specifies whether the Data Flow Probe checks if the scan file on the discovery node is more current than the one on the Data Flow Probe server. If the file on the discovery node is newer, the scan file is downloaded.

Default: Enabled

Remove Scan Data

Specifies whether scan data are deleted from the discovery node immediately after the scan file has been copied to the Data Flow Probe. Removed files include the scanner executable, configuration files, and scan files.

Specifies whether to run scripts that are configured to run on discovery nodes before and after scanning.

Select or type the maximum amount of time UCMDB runs scripts.

Default: 5 minutes

Opens the Pre/Post Scan Script Editor dialog box, enabling you to customize scripts that run before and after scanning on discovery nodes. For more information, see the section that describes how to edit pre and post scan scripts in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help.

• Select preferences relating to the scanner configuration file (.cxz) that controls the Inventory Discovery workflow.

• Click to list the scanner configuration options when scanner-based inventory discovery is selected.

Click to use the same scanner configuration file for all platforms. In the file name box, select the file you want to use.

Click to specify the configuration file that you want to use for each platform. In each file name box, select a file.

Starts the Scanner Generator to create a scanner configuration file.

For more information about the Scanner Generator, see the section describing the Scanner Generator in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help.

• Select options that send software data that are collected by the Scanner and contained in scan files to UCMDB.

• Click to list the mapping options when scanner-based inventory discovery is selected.

• When writing regular expressions, observe the following guidelines:

  Enter a semicolon-separated regular expression. The following attributes are available:

  name

  discovered_vendor

  version

  description

  The dot character is allowed. For example, "a.c" matches "abc". Additionally, the asterisk character is allowed. For example, "ab*c" matches "ac", "abc", and "abbbc".

  For example, assume you type the following string (ignore quotes): "name=my.*;discovered_vendor=HP;version=1.*;description=UCMDB".

  In this example, applications are included or excluded if the application name begins with the characters "my", the vendor name matches "HP" exactly, the version number begins with "1", and the description string matches "UCMDB" exactly.

  For more information, see the section describing regular expressions in the Modeling section of the UCMDB Help.

Click Software Recognition Configuration to open the XML Enricher where you can configure options for software recognition and for software utilization processing. For more information about software recognition configuration, see the section describing configuration of the XML Enricher in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help.

Click to restore the screen to the default values.

Caution: All changes are lost.

In the Users box, type or select the minimum numbers of users of an application to map utilization data.

Names of installed applications which are contained in the Normalized section of the scan file that you do not want to send to UCMDB. Use a regular expression. For more information on how to create regular expressions, see Important information.

Names of installed applications that are contained in the Normalized section of the scan file, which you want to send to UCMDB. If this field is blank, all installed applications that are detected are included. Use a regular expression. For more information on how to create regular expressions, see Important information.

Select this check box to send data about installed software applications that are detected in the file system of the discovery node. If this check box is selected, more options are displayed. Normalized application data are contained in the Normalized section of the scan file.

Select this check box to parse and send information about software that is only partially matched using the SAI. This may indicate that a different version of the application might be installed.

Default: Enabled

Select this check box to send data about installed applications that are known to the operating system of the discovery node. For Windows computers, it collects data about software that are listed in the Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features. For UNIX computers, it collects data about software from the system package manager.

Use a regular expression to enter names of installed applications that are contained in the Raw OS section of the scan file, which you do not want to send to UCMDB. If this field is blank, all installed applications are excluded.

For more information on how to create regular expressions, see Important information.

Use a regular expression to enter names of installed applications that are contained in the Raw OS section of the scan file, which you want to send to UCMDB.

If this field is blank, all installed applications are excluded. However, if this field is blank and applications are listed in the Normalized Applications-Include setting, the included applications are added.

For more information on how to create regular expressions, see Important information.

Specifies whether to report installed applications that are associated with free licenses to UCMDB.

Default: Enabled

Select this check box to enable mapping of software utilization information. This information is required for recognition of used applications and executables that were executed. For more information, see the section describing Software Utilization in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help.

• Select preferences relating to the type of information that is collected during the SNMP discovery.

• Click to list the SNMP discovery options when scanner-based inventory discovery is selected.

Select the check box for the information that you want to discover.

• Disks

• Installed Software
• Modules
• Processes
• Services

• Select preferences relating to the type of information that is collected during a script-based discovery. This option is best suited for data center environments.

• Click to list the options when basic inventory discovery is selected.

Select to use Jython scripts that run on the Data Flow Probe.These scripts connect to discovery nodes, run commands, and then gather discovery information.

Select the check box for the information that you want to discover.

• CPUs
• Disks
• Drivers
• Fibre Channel HBAs
• Installed Software
• iSCSI
• Memory
• Modules
• Processes
• Services
• Shares