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Welcome to Alloy Discovery—a comprehensive network discovery and inventory solution that detects, audits and continually tracks physical and virtual computers, servers, printers, switches, routers and other equipment on the network. Targeted primarily for medium and enterprise business environments, it allows you to take control over your network inventory with an array of audit methods and strategies.

About this Help

This Help System is designed to help you quickly find answers to your questions about Alloy Discovery's windows and functions.

There are two ways to access this Help system within Alloy Discovery's:

• Press the F1 key on the currently active screen to display the relevant topic (note that not all screens will have context-sensitive help).

  NOTE: Before pressing F1, you must click in one of the screen’s fields to display the topic for that actual screen.

• Select Help > Help Contents on the menu bar to browse the Help System to find the necessary information.

The Help System is organized in the following chapters:

• Introduction. The current chapter introduces Alloy Discovery's structure and provides an overview of the user interface.

  • Copyrights

  • Components

  • Alloy Discovery Audit Clients

  • Overview of Audit Methods

  • User Interface

• Common Functions. This chapter explains the standard operations with application objects. This section also describes various methods for customizing grids and the Desktop App.

  • Customizing toolbars, commands, and options

  • Configuring the Desktop App options

  • Customizing grids

  • Printing grids

• Configuring Audit Settings. This chapter guides you through the configuration tasks.

  • Audit Profiles

  • Audit Credentials

• Taking Inventory. This chapter provides a detailed description of available audit methods.

  • Getting Started

  • How to Audit Network Nodes

  • Working with Sites

  • Direct Network Scan

  • Google Directory Audit

  • Network Folder Audit

  • Remote Audit with E-mail Delivery

  • Remote Audit with FTP delivery

  • Portable Audit

• Analyzing Results. This chapter explains how to view and analyze the audit results.

  • Viewing Collected Inventory Data

  • Viewing Individual Audit Snapshots

  • Working with Collections

  • Viewing and Changing Network Node Properties

  • Viewing Change History

  • Selecting multiple records

  • Batch updating UDFs in multiple records

  • Deleting records

• Reports. This chapter explains how to generate various reports and customize their layout.

  • Running reports

  • Managing report categories

  • Renaming reports

  • Customizing report layouts

  • Saving report layouts to external report files

  • Replacing reports with external report files

  • Creating reports

  • Deleting reports

• Managing the Software Catalog. This chapter explains how to use the Software Catalog for configuring software products and software recognition rules.

  • Classification of software products

  • Creating software products

  • Modifying software products

  • Marking products as New or clearing the New flag

  • Viewing discovered installations

  • Merging software products

  • Exporting or importing software products

  • Deleting software products

  • Managing recognition rules

  • Configuring software licenses

  • Viewing license usage statistics

• Advanced Features. This chapter provides a description about advanced tools and options, explains the Alloy Discovery's Inventory Analyzers.

  • Comparing Audit Snapshots

  • Exporting Audit Snapshots

  • Publishing to Web

  • Integrations

  • Capturing Screenshots on Remote Computers

  • Associating Virtual Machines with Host Machines

  • Audit Snapshot Viewer

  • Windows Inventory Analyzer

  • Linux Inventory Analyzer

  • Mac Inventory Analyzer

• Settings App. This chapter explains how to configure the various characteristics that determine Alloy Discovery's general appearance and behavior.

  • General

  • Accounts and Roles

  • Services

  • Logs

• Alloy Discovery Wizards and Tools. This chapter explains how to use the Alloy Discovery's wizards and tools.

  • User Tools

  • Administrator Tools

• Glossary. This chapter explains terms used throughout the document.

To find all product documentation including help, online guides, and release notes, use the Product Documentation drop-down menu in the upper panel or go to Alloy Software Product Documentation.