How do I manually add a server device to my network?

You can manually add a server device to your network without using a discovery profile. Click Add Assets at the top of the Managed Assets tab on the Asset Management page (or from the Overflow Menu). 

Note, in Entuity, you can add managed hosts either under the Server asset type or the Network Device asset type.  Managed hosts provide broad support for SNMP-based server monitoring, whereas server device support provides more information for the supported vendors and can also gather data with SSH or WinRM.

For more information on support for server hardware monitoring in Entuity, see this section.

The Add Asset form is displayed. Depending on your choice, the form can have the following sections:

• Management Level
• Asset Details
• Hardware Monitoring
• OS Monitoring
• Agent Monitoring
• Config Management
• User Defined Monitoring
• Advanced Settings

Management Level

1. In the Asset Category dropdown field, select Server.
2. Leave the Management Level field as Full (default).
3. In the Asset Type dropdown field, specify the type of server that you are adding.

Asset Details

1. Specify the zone to which the device will be added in the Zone dropdown field.
2. Enter the device name (which must be resolvable on the Entuity server) or IP address that Entuity uses to poll the device in the Polled Name/IP address field.
3. Specify the device name displayed within the product in the Display Name Using dropdown field, choosing from the following:
   • Polled Name/IP address - the identifier that Entuity uses to poll the device, as specified in the Polled Name/IP address field. This is the default.
   • IP Address - the management IP address of the device.
   • Resolved Name - the resolved name of the device.
   • Resolved Name (fully qualified) - the fully qualified resolved name of the device.
   • System Name - the administrator-assigned name of the device. 
   • Custom - the name that you manually enter as a device display name.
4. Specify the IP version that will be used to communicate with the device from the IP Protocol dropdown field, either IPv4 or IPv6.
5. Specify if you want to permit the addition of a device with the same IP address as one already managed from the Allow Duplicate IPs dropdown field.

Hardware Monitoring

This section is not available if you selected OS Only in the Asset Type field above.

1. From the Connection Method dropdown field, specify the connection method to use for monitoring the server hardware. 
   The options available will depend on the type of server that you are adding.
2. Click the Credential field to go to the Credential form, where you can either search from a list of shared credential sets, or create a local credential. For more information on credentials, see this section.
3. Click Done on the Credential form to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.
4. Optionally specify the Connection Port if it differs from the default.

OS Monitoring

1. From the Connection Method dropdown field, specify the connection method to the OS, choosing from the following:
   • HP-UX (ssh) (Entuity v22.0 P05 upwards)
   • IBM AIX (ssh) (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards)
   • Linux (local) (Entuity v23.0 upwards)
   • Linux (ssh)
   • Solaris (ssh) (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards)
   • Windows (local) (Entuity v23.0 upwards)

   • Windows (winrm)

     Note, for Windows (WinRm), you must configure WinRM on the managed server before you can monitor the server. For more information on how to configure WinRM, see this article.

2. Click the Credential field to go to the Credential form, where you can either search from a list of shared credential sets, or create a local credential. 
   If you are using SSH key-based authentication, you must enter the private key of the public/private key pair in the SSH Key field, and the public key needs to be in the authorized_hosts.txt file on the remote system. You must include in the SSH Key field the full contents of the private key file. For more information on credentials, see this section.
   
   From Entuity v21.0 P01 upwards, fully qualified domain name format is supported for usernames when taking Windows OS under management. This means that the following username formats are accepted:
   • user@fqdn, for example, myuser@entuity.local
   • user@netbios_domain_name, for example, myuser@ent
   • fqdn\user, for example, entuity.local\myuser
   • netbios_doman_name\user, for example, ent\myuser
   • user, for example, myuser
3. Click Done on the Credential form to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.
4. Optionally specify the Connection Port if it differs from the default.

Agent Monitoring

From Entuity v23.0 upwards, this section is used for monitoring Server/Storage devices with an Entuity Agent. For more information on agent monitoring, see this section.

1. Click the Agent field to go to the Select an agent form.
2. From the Select an agent form, select the Entuity Agent that you want to monitor the device. 
   The selected agent's name and ID are then displayed in the Agent field.
3. Once you have selected the Entuity Agent that will monitor the storage device, click Done to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.  

Config Management

1. Specify whether to enable configuration management on the asset in the Enabled field.
2. Click the Credential field to go to the Credential form, where you can either search from a list of shared credential sets, or create a local credential.  
   For more information on credentials, see this section.
3. Click Done on the Credential form to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.

User Defined Monitoring

You can specify the credentials that will be applied to any user defined REST poller that you might create and add to the current device.

1. Click the Credential field to go through to the Credential form, from where you can either search from a list of shared credential sets, or create a local credential. Please see this section for further help and information on credentials.
2. Click Done on the Credential form to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.

For more information on user defined REST polling, see this section.

Advanced Settings

1. From the Use SNMP Bulk Get dropdown field, do one of the following:
   • Select Yes if you want to receive back multiple GetNext responses in a single packet.
   • Select No if you want to receive back the normal 1 GetNext response.
2. In the SNMP Port field, specify on which port the device's SNMP agent receives its requests. 
   By default, this is set to the default UDP port 161.
3. Specify the SNMP timeout, in seconds, in the SNMP Timeout (seconds) field.
4. Specify the number of SNMP retries in the SNMP Retries field.
5. Specify the maximum SNMP packet size that Entuity uses when polling devices in the Max Packet Size (bytes) field.
6. Once you have specified the parameters of the server, click Done to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.