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Chapter 3 Managing the Device Inventory
Adding Devices to the Device Inventory

Understanding Device Properties

You define device properties when you add devices to Security Manager. Device properties are general
information about the device, credentials, the group the device is assigned to, and policy overrides. You
must provide some device property information, such as device identity and primary credentials, when
you add the device, but you can add or edit the properties from the Device Properties dialog box.
To view the device properties, do one of the following in the Device selector:
•Double-click a device.
•Right-click a device and select Device Properties.
•Select a device and select Tools > Device Properties.
The Device Properties dialog box has two panes. The left pane contains a table of contents with these
items:
•General—Contains general information about the device, such as device identity, the operating
system running on the device, and device communication settings.
•Credentials—Contains device primary credentials (username, password, and enable password),
SNMP credentials, Rx-Boot Mode credentials, and HTTP credentials.
•Device Groups—Contains the groups to which the device is assigned.
•Cluster Information—Contains detailed informatio for the cluster group, if any.
•Policy Object Overrides—Contains global settings of certain types of reusable policy objects that
you can override for this device.
When you select an item in the table of contents, the corresponding information is displayed in the right
pane.
Notes
•Security Manager does not assume that the DNS hostname that appears on the Device Properties
page is the same as the hostname that you configured on the device.
•When you add a device to Security Manager, you must enter either the management IP address or
the DNS hostname. Because it is not possible to determine the management interface and, therefore,
the management IP address when you discover from a configuration file, the hostname in the
configuration file is used as the DNS hostname. If the hostname is missing in the CLI of the
configuration file, the configuration filename is used as the DNS hostname.
•When you discover a device from the network, the DNS hostname in the Device Properties page is
not updated with the hostname configured on the device. Therefore, if you want to specify the DNS
hostname for the device, you must specify it manually when you add the device to Security Manager
or on the Device Properties page.
For more information about device properties, see Viewing or Changing Device Properties, page 3-39.
Adding Devices to the Device Inventory
When you add a device to Security Manager, you specify the identifying information for the device, such
as its DNS name and IP address. This information is added during device discovery. You can also bring
in existing network configurations associated with a device by initiating policy discovery. For complete
information on policy discovery, see Discovering Policies, page 5-12. Once you add the device, it
appears in the Security Manager device inventory.