Global Settings Dialog Box

This dialog box enables you to set and view global settings for all Management Zones in your system.

To access

Select Data Flow Management > Universal Discovery > Zone-based Discovery tab > Management Zone Actions pane, and click View/Edit Global Settings .

Relevant tasks
See also

User interface elements are described below:

UI Elements Description
General Settings

Enables you to manage general settings for all of the Management Zones.

  • Categories pane. Displays the available setting categories. Select a category to display the relevant settings on the right.
  • Properties. Opens the Properties window, and allows you to view the properties for a selected global setting and change it's value.

    Note You can also open the Properties window by double-clicking on a global setting in the list.

  • Undo. Restores the previous value of the selected setting (only relevant if you changed the value of that setting).
  • Filter by column. Filters the list of global settings by selecting a category from the drop-down list and entering filter criteria in the text box.

Note For details about each of the displayed settings, see the section describing the globalsettings.xml file in the Universal CMDB Discovery and Integrations Content Help.

Application Signatures

Enables you to manage application signatures.

  • Add. Opens the Software Identification Rule Editor dialog box, enabling you to add an application signature to the list of available signatures. For details, see Software Identification Rule Editor Dialog Box.
  • Edit. Opens the Software Identification Rule Editor dialog box, enabling you to edit a selected application signature. For details, see Software Identification Rule Editor Dialog Box.
  • Export Application Signature to XML. Enables you to export the selected application signature to an xml file.
  • Import Application Signature from XML Enables you to import an application signature from an xml file.
  • Remove. Removes the selected application signature from the list of available signatures.
Ports

Enables you to manage ports.

  • Add Port. Opens the Add New Port dialog box, enabling you to add a new port.
  • Edit Port. Enables you to modify port number of the selected port.
  • Remove Port. Enables you to remove the selected port.

Note  

  • Naming conventions for the port:

    • The port name can contain the following characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, hyphen (-), underscore (_), and space ( )
    • Max length: 255 characters
  • When adding or modifying a port, if the port should be detected using TCP/UDP port scanning, select Discover Port.