Asset Discovery

Usage and Config Platform
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(imported topic written by madhav91)

Hi all,

I am new to forum as well as BigFix. I have downloaded evaluation software and trying out in our network. I want to discover assets but I don’t find the relevant task to install Nmap. I find an external site “Asset Discovery” but I do not find any tasks in that site.

Appreciate your help. Thanks.

Regards,

Madhav.

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hi Madhav,

Two thoughts. First, have you subscribed computers to the Asset Discovery external site? If there aren’t any computers subscribed, you won’t be able to do anything with the side. It sounds like you’ve probably found the site document, so to subscribe computers go to the “Computer Subscriptions” tab of that document.

To actually set up Asset Discovery, you’ll want to go to the “Systems Lifecycle” domain. Under the “Asset Discovery” folder you’ll see a “Setup” node, which should get you started.

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(imported comment written by madhav91)

Hi Abauer,

Thanks for your prompt response. But I have two questions to the below reply.

  1. I have found the required NMAP fixlet and installed it. When I want to Install scan point, the relevant actions in list panel are greyed out. FYI… I haven’t installed clients on any machine and wanna install the scan point on the server itself.

  2. How can I know list of scan points in our environment?

Thanks in Advance for your help.

Regards,

Madhav.

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(imported comment written by kevin_friedheim)

Hi Madhav,

  1. Like Aaron mentioned above, you probably have not subscribed your server to Asset Discovery external site.

  2. You can see which computers you have already set up to be scan points by viewing the list of relevant computers to fixlet 2 of the Asset Discovery Site (Remove Nmap Scan Point).

-Kevin