HP Device Manager 4.5 - Installation Guide

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When you choose Use Static Custom Groups and click Add, a dialog will appear and let you input
the grouping value. You can choose the Group Name from a drop-down list and input a value for it.
Agent parameters
Although the GUIs differ a little between Windows and Linux, their parameters are the same. Here, we give
explanations for each parameter.
• Agent Version—The current version of HPDM Agent.
• Current Gateway—The IP address of the HPDM Gateway that is currently managing this Agent. You
can change this value to make the Agent report in to another Gateway with either an IP address or a
hostname. The Agent will refresh this value into a valid IP address every time it receives a task from an
active Gateway.
• Backup Gateway—The IP address of a backup Gateway. The Agent tries to find a Gateway to work
with on startup. If the Current Gateway is not available, the Agent will try to connect to the Backup
Gateway.
• Pull Interval—Indicates the time interval that the Agent connects to the Gateway and asks for a task.
Normally, tasks are pushed from the Gateway to the Agent when the Gateway gets a task. Sometimes
the Agent is running on a device behind NAT, which means the Gateway has no approach to connect to
the Agent. Tasks for devices behind NAT can only be executed after the Agent establishes a connection
to the Gateway and pulls tasks from the Gateway.
• Log Level—Indicates which levels of logs should be written into the log file. When set at a particular
level, errors of that level and higher are logged. There are three levels for HPDM Agent: INFORMATION,
WARNING, and ERROR (from low to high). You can refer to the HP Device Manager User Guide for
more details about logging.
• Delay Scope—Indicates a time range during which the Agent sends a startup report to the Gateway
after startup. The Agent will randomly select a time in that range and send a startup report. This avoids
net traffic peak. For example, consider that there are 100 devices. All of them have Delay Scope set to
10 minutes, and we send a reboot task to them all. The 100 devices all reboot, and then their Agents
start on them. They will not report in at the 10
th
minute after that. Each of them uses a random time
between 0–10 minutes. So, all 100 devices will report in within 10 minutes, avoiding net traffic peak.
• Get Pre-Assign Groups from DHCP Tag—Selecting this option will make the Agent report in with
grouping values to get from the DHCP server. Refer to
Configuring DHCP tags for information on how to
set grouping values on a DHCP server for HP Device Manager.
• Use Static Custom Groups—Allows you to set custom grouping values for this device manually. The
Agent will ignore values from the DHCP server and report in what you set.
• Group Name—Indicates the group. There are seven fields to choose from. You can set some or all of
them.
• Value—Indicates the grouping value for the specified file.