To inventory discovered machines, select the
check box in the Discovery and Inventory dialog boxes and then provide login credentials for Windows, UNIX, Virtual Center, VMware ESX, Novell NetWare, or Citrix XenServer machines, depending on the type of machines in use. For the Inventory From CSV File dialog box, the area is disabled if the CSV file contains credentials for its machines.To provide inventory credentials, in the Section 4.5, Credentials Manager.
area, select credentials from the drop‑down list on the appropriate tab. For every machine in the list or range, PlateSpin Recon tries each type of credential provided until it finds one that matches. If the credentials are not valid, the machine is not inventoried. To learn more about adding credentials, refer toFor inventorying UNIX or Citrix XenServer machines, select the root user. A user with sudo privileges can get around this restriction by establishing an SSH session as a non-root user and then using sudo to temporarily “switch” to root user privileges.To do this, create the credentials using that user’s username and password. PlateSpin Recon will use the sudo command to perform any operations that require root privileges.
check box to use superuser privileges for connections. Local policies can sometimes prevent you from establishing an SSH session as aFor inventorying a Virtual Center, credentials must have a minimum read-only user status for the Virtual Center. Virtual Center automatically includes as users any user with Administrator privileges for the machine where Virtual Center is installed.
For inventorying Novell NetWare, do the following:
In the Novell eDirectory of the NetWare server you want to inventory, create a user with the same login credentials as that of the PlateSpin Recon server administrator.
Associate the local security policies to the PlateSpin Recon server administrator.
On the PlateSpin Recon server, click the desktop
menu > > .Double click
> .The Local Security Settings window is displayed.
Click
, then double-click .Associate administrator with following policies:
Act as part of the operating system
Create a token object
Log on as a batch job
Log on as a service
Replace a process level token
Ensure that the recommended Novell Client is installed on the PlateSpin Recon server.
For more information on the recommended Novell Clients, see Supported Novell NetWare Platforms.
Through the Novell Client, log in to the PlateSpin Recon server as the administrator user created in Step 1.
Launch the PlateSpin Recon Client.
In the
drop-down list (located at the top left corner), click .The Inventory Machines dialog box is displayed.
Click the
tab.In the
drop-down list, select .The Create Stored Machines dialog box is displayed.
Specify the login credentials of the NetWare administrator, and select
as the validation type.Ensure to specify the username in the Username.Context format.
Ensure that the administrator has permission to write to the Novell SYS: volume. Also, ensure that TCP port 524 is open on the firewall. For more information see Section 1.3, Supported Platforms.
In the L
drop-down list, select .The Create Stored Machines dialog box is displayed.
Fill in the fields:
Username: Specify the administrator username created Step 1. You must specify the username either in the hostname\username or the domain\username format. If you choose to specify the username in the hostname\username format, ensure that the hostname is the local hostname.
Password: Specify the password of the administrator.
Validation Type: Select
.Hostname or IP of machine to validate against: Specify it as localhost.
Click
.Click
.