Dell DPND-523-EN12 User Manual
Network discovery, Setup guide
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Welcome to Network Discovery
- Pre-setup Questionnaire
- Your contact information
- Describe your network’s node and subnet setup
- Enter the Peregrine appliance network information
- Peregrine Systems Customer Support access
- List IPv4 ranges for Network Discovery to discover
- List IPv4 ranges for Network Discovery to avoid
- List the community strings of your network’s devices
- Enter TCP/IP configuration
- What server will you use for the Peregrine appliance?
- Send the questionnaire
- Prepare the network
- Turn on SNMP management in all routers and core switches
- (Optional) Turn on SNMP management in other devices
- Set DHCP lease time
- About community strings
- Give the Peregrine appliance IP address to all devices using directed community strings
- (Optional) Adjust bridge aging
- Plan the device and port to which the Peregrine appliance will be attached
- Choose how to receive Peregrine Systems Customer Support
- Enable firewall ports
- Check Cisco devices
- (Optional) Enable UDP port forwarding on routers
- Check Committed Information Rate values
- Compatibility Matrix
- Install and Start Network Discovery
- About installing the hardware
- Connect a keyboard and monitor directly to the Peregrine appliance
- Connect the Peregrine appliance to AC power
- Set the BIOS boot sequence
- Install Network Discovery software from the CD
- Give the Peregrine appliance its network information
- Connect the appliance to the network
- Connect a management workstation to the network
- Connect an Uninterruptible Power Supply
- (Optional) Connect data backup equipment and pager hardware
- (Optional) Connect the Peregrine appliance to a telephone line
- (Optional) Using terminal emulation software
- Appliance Management
- Log in to Network Discovery
- The Home page
- The Toolbar
- Assign a system name, contact, and location
- Change the Peregrine appliance community strings
- Set the time zone
- Enter the domain name server
- Enter the host name
- (Optional) Enter the Workgroup name
- (Optional) Enter the Administrator e-mail address
- (Optional) Enter the SMTP server
- Set the system time
- Change the default Admin password
- About disabling warnings
- Licenses
- Set up Network Discovery
- Refining Network Discovery
- A precise matrix of network discovery
- A tree of IPv4 ranges
- Property Groups
- Network Property Groups
- How to use Network Property Groups
- Making changes to Network Property Groups
- Apply a Network Property Group to a range
- Community Property Groups
- More on community strings
- Property sets are a shortcut
- Reviewing and activating your configuration changes
- Setting up Accounts
- Backup and Restore
- Shutting down the Peregrine Appliance
- Before you call...
- Security Checklist
- Extra Hardware
- Index