Viewing and modifying network details

From the Networks area of ENT NetCenter, You can view or modify the details for any of the networks that you have defined by double clicking on the network that you want to edit in the Networks list. This will open the Network Details window where you can view and modify the various fields relating to the network. Once you have finished making any changes to the network details, simply click on the Save and Close button.

You can use the view navbar on the left of the window to view the different pages of the network details. The Network page shows details of the network itself. On the Activity page you can view the activity history for the network (including any tasks or helpcalls related to the network).

ENT NetCenter will display the Description in the Networks List and in the references for any tasks or helpcalls related to the network. The Network Type is used by ENT NetCenter to determine how it should find machines on your network. If you choose Domain as the network type, ENT NetCenter will search for computers on your Windows domain during a network scan. If you choose Subnet as the network type, the network scan will ping a range of IP addresses in order to find the machines on the network. You can store any additional information that you want to keep in the Notes for the network.

Credentials

When scanning or auditing machines on a network, ENT NetCenter will implicitly use the credentials of the user that is running ENT NetCenter. For example, if you are logged onto your windows domain as "Guest" when you are running ENT NetCenter, then ENT NetCenter will only have access to things on the network that the Guest user has access to. It is HIGHLY unlikely that the guest user has the privileges that are required to audit machines on the network. In fact, by default, only administrators or members of the administrators group will have access to the WMI service that ENT NetCenter uses to audit the machines on your network.

However, you can supply ENT NetCenter with an explicit set of credentials to be used when auditing machines on that network instead. In this case, ENT NetCenter will be able to assume the rights of the user given by the Username field in the Credentials panel of the network details, regardless of the user that is logged into windows and running ENT NetCenter.

When supplying credentials explicitly, the Username is the username that should be used when auditing machines.  The Password is obviously the password for this user account.

The Authority allows you to specify the security package that is used to authenticate your connection to remote machines. This is optional and you typically won't need (or want) to enter an Authority. Should you wish to do so, however, you can specify standard NTLM or Kerberos authentication. To use NTLM, set the authority to "ntlmdomain:DomainName" where DomainName identifies a valid NTLM domain name. To use Kerberos, specify "kerberos:DomainName\ServerName".