Using the GoToManage Inventory application
The GoToManage Inventory application provides you with an instant inventory of devices discovered on your network.
Installing the Inventory application
Install your GoToManage Inventory application from the Applications page:
To install an Inventory application on your GoToManage system:
- On the left-hand navigation box, click Applications.
- Under Applications Available, in the Inventory pane, click Install.
Using your GoToManage Inventory application
To access your GoToManage Inventory application:
- On the lefthand navigation box on any page of your GoToManage Web account,
do one of the following:
- Under Applications, click the application link to open the specific application.
- Click the Application arrow to open the list of available applications.
- The Inventory application conducts an inventory of all devices discovered on your network by your GoToManage Crawler, and displays in broad categories:
- Click a category to see the individual devices in that category:
- Click the navigator
icon to see where
this device is located in the ontology of your database: - Click an individual device to see details about that device. Click Overview to view the overall summary information about it.
- Click Performance to see the CPU load load and free disk space for the device.
- Click Network to view the network configuration of the device.
- Click Users to find who the users of the device are
- Click Software to view what software is installed on the device.
- Click Patches to see what patches are installed on the device.
- Click Disks to what the disk descriptions and types are installed on the device.
- Click Hardware to view hardware items such as memory, the processor, BIOS, Peripheals, and other hardware items installed on the device.
- Click Services to see what services are running on the device.
- Click Routing to see things like the destination, gateway, and subnet routing info on the device.
- Click Classification to view the classification results of the device.
- Click HTTPS to log in and manage:
- To run searches from this point, click gray subnodes and click Add Column to Table:
Example
The GoToManage Inventory application comes in handy when you want to quickly check on a critical server to make sure everything is in order. Here's a typical example:
- Open your GoToManage Inventory application from any page of your GoToManage Web account by clicking Inventory on the lefthand navigation box.
- At the assets level of your network Inventory, click Servers to search for the critical server.
- At the servers level of your Inventory, click one of the servers you want to see information about.
- Click Disks, in order to see what the available disk space is on this server.
- You will also see charts that indicate what the overall disk usage of the server is, giving you a better idea of what space is being used.
