Avocent AdminWorks 1.2 User
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s Manual
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July 2005
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During the time when a discovery is in progress, a message and an animated icon will display in
the Status Bar, as shown below.
After the discovery process has completed, the results of the discovery will be displayed in the
Status frame of the Console window. An example of this was shown two pages ago in the
Status Frame section. However, the text displayed in the Status frame is temporarily viewable
only during the current AdminWorks session.
Therefore, AdminWorks also keeps a log of previous discovery data, so that the data is
available for your future reference. The log can be exported to a separate file, if desired.
Information about this is given in the upcoming section entitled System Logs... (Console
Menu).
Poll
Whereas the Discovery function described above simply scans for the presence of systems on
the network (both managed and unmanaged) on which the Agent has been installed, the Polling
function allows you to read the actual system information, but only for the managed systems
that are currently on-line. The Polling function gathers the most current system information for
all of the on-line managed systems, and updates it in the AdminWorks database.
It doesn
’
t matter whether or not any of the systems are individually selected in the Workgroup
frame at the time you select Poll. All of the on-line managed systems will be polled.
To update system information, use any of these four methods:
Select the Poll command from the Console Menu.
Click the Poll button (
) on the Tool Bar.
Press the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut.
Right-click anywhere within an empty area of the Workgroup frame, then select Poll
from the pop-up menu.
During the time when polling is in progress, a
“
Polling.....
”
message will display briefly in the
Status Bar.
To view the updated information for any of the systems, click on the desired system and you will
see the related data in the Information frame at the right side of the Console window.
