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. On the Managed Assets page, click the Add Assets button at the top of the page or via the Overflow Menu. 

Please note that 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 via SSH or WinRM.

Please see this section for further help and information on support for server hardware monitoring in Entuity.

This will open the Add Asset form on the right of the window. Depending on your choice, the form can contain the following sections:

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

Management Level

1. In the Asset Category dropdown field, select Server.
2. The Management Level will be set to Full by 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 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 - displays the identifier it uses to poll the device as specified in the Polled Name/IP address field. This is the default.
   • IP Address - management IP address of the device.
   • Resolved Name - resolved name of the device.
   • Resolved Name (fully qualified) - fully qualified resolved name of the device.
   • System Name - administrator-assigned name of the device. Note, from Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards, System Name is no longer an option for the Display Name Using field if you are adding a non-SNMP device (i.e. Ping Only, Server or Storage device types).
   • Custom - manually enter 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. Specify the Connection Method to use to the hardware from the dropdown field. The options available will depend on the type of server that you are adding.
2. 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.
3. Specify the Connection Port.

OS Monitoring

1. Specify the Connection Method to use to the OS from the dropdown field, choosing from either IBM AIX (ssh) (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards), Solaris (ssh) (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards), Linux (ssh) or Windows (winrm). Note, you will have to configure WinRM on the managed server before you can monitor the server. Please see this article for help and information on how to configure WinRM.
2. 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. If you are using SSH key-based authentication, you will need to enter the private key of the public/private key pair in the SSH Key field, and the public key will need to be in the authorized_hosts.txt file on the remote system. You will need to include to the SSH Key field the full contents of the private key file.   Please see this section for further help and information on credentials.
   
   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, e.g. myuser@entuity.local
   • user@netbios_domain_name, e.g. myuser@ent
   • fqdn\user, e.g. entuity.local\myuser
   • netbios_doman_name\user, e.g. ent\myuser
   • user, e.g. myuser
3. Specify the Connection Port.

Config Management

1. Specify whether to enable configuration management on the asset in the Enabled field.
2. 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.

User Defined Monitoring

Here you can specify the credentials that will be applied to any user defined REST poller that you might create and add to the device currently being added to management.

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.

For further help and information on user defined REST polling, please see this section.

Advanced Settings

1. Switch on Use SNMP Bulk Get if you want to receive back multiple GetNext responses in a single packet. Leave the box unticked if you want to receive back the normal 1 GetNext response back.
2. Specify on which port the device's SNMP agent receives its requests, in the SNMP Port field. 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 Entuity uses when polling devices in the Max Packet Size (bytes) field.

Once you have specified the parameters of the server, click Done in the top right of the form, otherwise click Cancel.