This section provides detailed insights on your Domotz Collector’s general information and settings and allows you to:
- Collector Discovery Overview
- View and edit the Collector Basic Information (Collector’s Name, Location, Time Zone, etc.)
- Configure the Collector Monitoring Settings such as:
- Monitoring Configuration
- Monitored Networks
- Physical and Virtual Networks
- Routed networks
- External Hosts
- Logical devices
- Default Credentials
- Manage pairing with external Documentation & Data Aggregation Platforms
- Other
How to access the Collector section
From the ‘Inventory’ Dashboard select the Domotz Collector you would like to configure:
Once in the Domotz Collector main Devices view, select the ‘Collector’ menu (the cogwheel on the top left) button:
Collector Discovery Overview
In this section, you can view an overview of the site discovery, including the total number of discovered devices, the number of subnets being scanned, and the number of detected VLANs. It also provides graphical statistics based on device types and vendors.
Basic Information
In the ‘Basic Information’ section you will be able to access/edit the following information:
- Collector Name
- Site Location
- Site Time Zone
- Customer Information
- Organization Name/ID
- Notes Field: you may enter your personal notes about this Collector in this section.
Default Credentials
Default Credentials – the current SNMP default authentication.
Here, you can edit the used SNMP version (v1, v2 or v3), the read/write communities and you can apply these settings to all devices within the collector:
Monitoring Configuration
In Domotz you have the ability to manually select the devices you would like to monitor and manage.
All available assets are displayed in the left column, and a search feature is provided for easy navigation. You can select individual devices or use the “Select All” option for bulk selection.
Once you’ve made your selection, simply click the arrow between the columns to add the assets to the Managed Devices list (Right column). To confirm the list of monitored assets, simply click the “Save Changes” button.
Devices can be moved back and forth using the arrow in the center. After saving, you also have the option to remove devices from the Monitored Assets list as needed.
Following the scanning properties which can be fined-tuned:
- Physical and Virtual Networks (Also called “Attached Networks” which are scanned at Layer 2)
- Routed networks (Scanned at Layer 3)
- IP Address Range (Scanned at Layer 2)
- IP Address List (Scanned at Layer 2)
- External Hosts (Public hosts/ip – Scanned at Layer 3)
- Logical Devices – (also called Dummy Devices)
Support Management
From this section, you can enable access to your Collector for Domotz’ support team. You’ll have to click on the pen icon and enable it.
Manage Integrations for Ticketing, Documentation, and Data Systems
Ticketing System integrations and their settings along with editing options will be shown here.
Other Settings
In this section, additional collector settings are available.
If your collector is a Domotz Box, you have the option to disable its local web interface to enhance the security of your Domotz Agent. Disabling this feature prevents other users on the same local network from accessing the Domotz Box configuration. To do so, click on the pencil icon and disable the option.
You can also disable the RTD and Packet Loss measurement features for all managed devices globally from this section. By default, these features are enabled. To disable them, click on the pencil icon next to the respective setting and confirm the change.
