How do I manually add a device under full management to my network?

You can manually add a device under full management 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.

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

• Management Level
• Asset Details
• Credential
• Config Management
• User Defined Monitoring
• Associated Assets
• Advanced Settings

Management Level

1. In the Asset Category dropdown field, select the category of the device that you want to manage.
2. From the Management Level dropdown field, select Full.
3. From the Port Management dropdown field, select All Ports, Management Port Only, or No Ports.
4. In the Asset Type dropdown field, specify the type of device that you are adding. Select from:
   • Auto
   • Autonomous WAP
   • Base Station
   • Blade Center
   • Ethernet Switch
   • Firewall
   • Load Balancer
   • Managed Host
   • Matrix Switch
   • Multiplexer
   • PoE Midspan Injector
   • Router
   • SSL Proxy
   • Uninterruptible Power Supply
   • VPN
   • Wide Area Application Service

Asset Details

1. Specify the zone to which the device will be added in the Zone dropdown field. 
   Note, this is available only if you are adding a Basic SNMP device.
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 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. As of Entuity v23.0 P02 upwards, Entuity supports duplicate network device names when the System Name is the same for multiple devices, but each of the devices must have a different IP address.
   • 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.

Credential

1. 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.
2. Click Done on the Credential form to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.

Config Management

1. Specify whether to enable configuration management on the asset in the Enabled field.
2. Select the credential that you want to use for configuration management from the Credential field. Click this field to go to the Credential explorer, where you can choose, create or edit your credential.
3. Click Done on the Credential form to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.

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 current device.

1. 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.
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.

Associated Assets

1. Specify whether to automatically Manage Associated Assets of the device.
   If set to Yes, all new and existing associated assets of the device are discovered and managed automatically. If set to No, you must select each associated asset for management on the Asset Management page.  
   Notes to consider:
   • The associated assets of a VM platform or SD controller include virtual machines, Meraki devices, Viptela devices, and wireless APs, which are first discovered as candidate associated assets. These must then be put under management in order to fully manage them.
   • For an associated Meraki device (that is associated to a Meraki Cloud Controller) to move from 'Pending' to 'Managed' status, the associated Meraki device must have a populated Name value. Although the device Name does not necessarily need to be assigned on the controller for that device to exist, in Entuity it is insufficient that just the Mac and Serial are populated, the Name must also be assigned.

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 field 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.

Once you have specified the parameters of the device, click Done to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.