Managed vs Unmanaged devices

The purpose of this article is to explain the distinctions between “Managed devices” and “Unmanaged devices” within Domotz when utilizing the Custom Selection Monitoring feature of the Domotz Collector.

Custom Selection Monitoring allows to choose with more flexibility the devices or the networks you would like to monitor. Further details on this topic can be found here.

Managed devices

For Managed device, we intend an asset for which you intend to:

• associate an alert
• trigger a workflow (like syncing to a documentation system, PSA, Slack, a webhook or anything else)
• view behavioral properties (either SNMP variables or our very flexible custom integration scripts) or history of state changes
• perform any action such as establish a secure connection for remote access, or backup a configuration file

Unmanaged devices

With Unmanaged devices, we refer to assets linked to your network that are not under active monitoring or control by Domotz. These assets are now visible on both the Topology Map and Device List, facilitating their identification.

Display Managed and Unmanaged devices

Collector/Site Device List

Within the Devices List on your Site/Collector, you can display both Managed and Unmanaged devices by clicking on the specified buttons:

Inventory Dashboard

In the Inventory Dashboard, instead, will show only the devices you have selected as Managed (Unmanaged ones will not be visible):

Network Topology

In the Domotz Network Topology, on the other hand, you will be able to see ALL the devices regardless they are Managed or Unmanaged: