Using XRatel Server Config

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       Scan Devices

The first step to configure the server is to identify all manageable devices in your network environment. The Network Scan Wizard, available via Scan Devices button on Home tab, will attempt to find all compliant devices in a given network range. This is useful if you don't want to manually enter each device's IP attached to your network.

Network Scan Wizard

The first step lists all steps in this wizard.

Scan Parameters

You can customize the following scan options on the second step:

Scan Address Range: Search for devices into an IP range.

        From: First IP address of the desired scan range.

        To: Last IP address of the desired scan range.

 You can choose if you want to connect only to devices that reply to PING, making you research faster.

XRatel OPC Server can collect WMI and SNMP probes, so you can configure the Scan Devices to scan for these kind of devices.

SNMP Settings: configure the parameters that will be use on your Scan.

  Community: The community between the manager and agent.

  Timeout: Amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for a SNMP agent response

  SNMP Version: Choose the SNMP version v1,v2c or v3. If you select v3, the fields Username, Password

and Algorithm will be enable and must be filled, if needed.

WMI Settings: configure the parameters that will be use on your Scan.

  Domain\User and Password: these fields must be filled if you want to look for remote WMI devices. The user must have administrator privileges on the computer.

  Timeout: Amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for a WMI agent response.

Network Browsing

Then, in the third step, Network Scan Wizard will start the network scan. When the text "Scan Complete" appears, select the devices  that you want to achieve data and go to the next step. The scan process can be stopped at any moment clicking Stop Scan.

Device Browsing

In step 4, Network Scan Wizard will scan the selected devices for interfaces. Wait for complete scan and then, click on Finish. Notice that you can stop this scan by clicking on Stop Scan button.