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The Menu Bar
The Menu Bar
The Menu Bar is located just under the Title Bar of the AdminWorks Console window. The
menus available on the Menu Bar are Console, Client, Group, View, Tools, and Help. The
commands on each menu are explained in this section.
NOTE: The Tool Bar, which is located just under the Menu Bar of the Console window, is
explained in the View Menu section. The Status Bar is also explained in the View Menu
section.
Console Menu
The Console Menu is pictured below.
Discover
The Discover command initiates the discovery process.
Recall that during the installation of the AdminWorks Agent program on a system, a unique ID
known as the
“
Agent ID
”
is generated and stored in the system. The term
“
Discovery
”
refers to
the process whereby your Console program sends a broadcast to detect any systems on the
network that are identified by Agent IDs, retrieves those systems
’
most up-to-date information,
and saves it in the AdminWorks database. Systems that were previously discovered, but not
found during a subsequent discovery, are shown as off-line systems.
By default, AdminWorks is set to perform a discovery automatically, every 5 minutes. As
explained earlier, you can use Console Menu > Preferences... > Discovery tab to change the
interval, or to disable the
“
automatic discovery
”
function entirely. In any case, whether enabled
or disabled, there may be times when you will want to perform a discovery manually. Use the
Discover command on the Console Menu to initiate a manual discovery, or the Discover
button on the Tool Bar, or press the Ctrl+D keyboard shortcut.