General settings for clients

Attribute name

Description

Name

A display name for the server network configuration.

Server host

The host name or IP-address of the Miradore Management Suite server.

Notice:

It is recommended to use a fully qualified domain name (server hostname plus the domain suffix, for example: myhost.example.com ) instead of partially qualified domain name (relative host name only) to define the host name.

Default

This field displays whether the server network configuration is the default configuration or not.

Default server network configuration is a built-in configuration that can be edited but not removed. Reason for this is that there must always be at least one working configuration, which is used by clients to connect to Miradore server. Default configuration is also used during initial install or when client is distributed using client deployer tool. After installation, when client is able to connect to Miradore server using default configuration, it receives all additional configurations as well.

Note that only clients starting from Windows 3.1.0 and Linux/OSX 1.3.0 are able to use additional server configurations. Older clients only use the configured default configuration.

Priority level

This field displays the priority level of the server network configuration.

Server configurations are divided into two priority levels: primary and secondary. When computer/client is started, the client chooses a random configuration from primary priority level and tries to connect using that. If the connection fails, the client tries another configuration from primary level, or if there are no primary configurations remaining client moves to secondary priority configurations and randomly chooses one of them. Always when the client is able to connect to Miradore server, it stores ‘last good configuration’ for future and uses it until:

1. Computer/client is restarted.

2. New/changed server configurations are received from Miradore server

3. Network adapter change is detected, or

4. Connection to last good configuration fails.

Note that even if a computer is restarted, ‘last good configuration’ is not deleted but remains as one of the active configurations.

Use HTTPS

This field displays whether the server network configuration uses HTTPS/SSL instead of regular HTTP.

Use proxy

This field displays whether or not  this server network configuration is configured to use proxy server to connect to Miradore server.

Attribute name

Description

Proxy host

This field displays the host name or IP-address of the proxy server.

Proxy port

This field displays the proxy server's port.

Authentication

This field displays the authentication method that the proxy server uses (None, Basic, Digest, NTLM).

User

This field displays the username used for authentication on proxy server.

Attribute name

Description

Gateway host

This field defines the gateway host name or IP-address.

Gateway port

This field defines the gateway port.

Gateway use SSL

This field defines whether or not the gateway uses SSL.

Attribute name

Description

Order

Order numbers are used to prioritize the scheduled task profiles. The scheduled task always uses the configuration settings determined by the first matching scheduled task profile. If there are multiple scheduled task profiles, the scheduled task uses the profile whose scope matches with the client platform and whose order number is the smallest (i.e. the profile that has the highest priority). Drag and drop the scheduled task profile rows to the desired places to reorder the priority.

There is always at least on scheduled task profile, a Miradore built-in profile that matches with all assets and is used as default fallback profile.

Profile name

Profile name field specifies the name of the scheduled task profile. It is recommended to use descriptive names that explain the profile purpose.

Enabled

Enabled field determines whether the scheduled tasks profile is enabled or disabled.

If the built-in profile is the only profile for the particular scheduled task and it is disabled, then the scheduled task is not performed at all.

Interval

Interval specifies how often the scheduled task is performed.

Allowed time frame

Allowed time frame specifies when the scheduled tasks is allowed to be performed (e.g. "17-06" would mean that a scheduled task could be performed between 17 and 06, but not between 06 and 17).

Attribute name

Description

Add/Remove programs scan

Add/Remove programs inventory scans which software are installed to the assets according to the Add/Remove programs list.

This scheduled task is performed only for the clients operating on Windows-platform.

Boot duration

Boot duration inventory collects data about times and durations of boots on managed assets.

This scheduled task is performed only for the clients operating on Windows-platform.

Eventlog inventory

Eventlog inventory scans the Windows event logs for the operating system and application errors and crashes.

This scheduled task is performed only for the clients operating on Windows-platform.

File scan

File inventory scans and lists all executable files that were found from the managed asset.

This scheduled task is performed for clients operating on Windows-, Linux-, or Os X-platform.

Hardware scan

Hardware inventory scans the asset hardware and displays the gathered data at asset configuration item page.

This scheduled task is performed for clients operating on Windows-, Linux-, or Os X-platform. However, the inventoried data may vary a little between the different software platforms.

Local administrator scan

Local administrator inventory scans the use names of the local administrators.

This scheduled task is performed only for the clients operating on Windows-platform.

Patch scan and install

The task scans the managed assets for installed and missing patches.

This scheduled task is performed only for the clients operating on Windows-platform.

PnP device scan

PNP device inventory scans the asset for plug-and-play devices.

This scheduled task is performed only for the clients operating on Windows-platform.

Software scan

Software inventory scans the assets for installed applications. The software inventory is based on package manager that is used on the platform.

This scheduled task is performed for clients operating on Linux- or OS X platform.

Description

Custom scheduled tasks can be used to collect customer-configured data about assets and enter the data into the Miradore database. The custom inventory is performed by Miradore clients according to the custom scheduled tasks that have been configured to Miradore. See step-by-step guide to implementing custom inventory for more information.

Description

This table contains settings for data filters, which can be used to disable collection of certain inventory data attributes on mobile devices. A usual use case would be to disable collection of unauthorized data (e.g. user's location information).

If you wish to filter out certain inventory data, tick (or check) the check box on that row in the "Filter" column and save changes. After that, inventory data of that type will no more be imported to Miradore.

Using the "Clear filtered out data" function it is also possible to delete all previously collected data representing the filtered out data attributes.