Managing hosts

Add a new host.

For detailed instructions on adding a host, see Adding hosts.

Indicates whether redundancy is enabled or not for the Collection Station installed on the host.

Displays whether the Collection Station (or Collection Agent) is connected or not, as follows:

• The green square indicates that the Collection Station (or Collection Agent) is up and running.
• The red square indicates that the Collection Station (or Collection Agent) is down.

Enter the name of the target host from which you want to collect data.

You can also enter partial text, click Search , and select the appropriate host computers.

(Optional) Search for a Collection Host (Agent) by clicking Search Agents or manually enter the Collection Host (Agent) name.

Note: If you specify a value in this field and create the host, then you cannot change this value while modifying the host.

(Optional) Select (or clear) this check box to enable (or disable) data collection for the particular Collection Agent.

(Optional) Search for an existing collection profile and click Select Collection Profiles  to add it to the list of collection profiles that you want to associate with the host.

To override the values of macros associated with the collection profile, click Edit macros  under the Actions column, specify new values next to the macro names and click Apply.

To remove the collection profiles from the list of collection profiles that you want to associate with the host, click Remove Profiles under the Actions column.

Notes:  

• Collection Profiles can be applied only once. Changes made to the Collection Profile later are not applied to the data collectors created beforehand.
• The edit action is not supported if a particular collection profile did not contain macros.
  

(Optional) Tags can be added while creating hosts and data collectors. However, if you assign tags while adding a host, then these tag details can be directly inherited while creating data collectors.

You can inherit tags while creating data collectors by selecting the target host and then selecting the Inherit Host Level Tags From Target Host check box under the tags section.

Tags can be added to categorize data collected, which can later be used to narrow down search results. Tags added or inherited while creating data collectors are displayed on the Search tab, under the Filters panel, and in the Tags section.

Example: If your are collecting data from hosts located at Houston, you can select a tag name for "Location" and in the value specify "Houston". While searching the data, you can use the tag, Location="Houston" to filter data and see results associated with the Houston location.

To be able to see tag names, you need to first add them by navigating to Administration > System settings.

To specify tag names and corresponding values, in the left box select a tag name and then type the corresponding tag value in the right box. While you type the value, you might see type-ahead suggestions based on values specified in the past. If you want to use one of the suggestions, click the suggestion. Click Add to add the tag name and corresponding value to the list of added tags that follow. Click Remove Tag to remove a tag.

Note: At a time, you can specify only one value for a tag name. To specify multiple values for the same tag name, each time you need to select the tag name, specify the corresponding value, and click Add.

For more information about tags, see Understanding fields.

You can use this setting to restrict user access to the data collected from this host. Before you enable this setting, you need to ensure that data access control is enabled at Administration > System Settings.

While creating data collectors, you can inherit the permissions enabled by using this setting, by selecting the Inherit Host Level Access Groups From Target Host check box.

Notes:

• If you do not select any user groups and data access control is not enabled, then all users can access data retrieved from the host. You can restrict access permissions by selecting the relevant user groups that must be given access permissions. To enable data access control, navigate to Administration > System Settings.
• If you do not select any user group and data access control is enabled, then only the data collector creator can access data retrieved from the host. But for this, the host must be associated with the data collector.