The Resource Discovery Wizard can be used to discover resources on your network. This can be used both to discover computers, as well as resources on those computers. This can be very useful to create many resources in Overseer quickly.

Welcome


Once launched, you'll see a simple introduction screen for the wizard. Click Next.

Host/Computer List


This screen lets you enter each of the computer(s) you'd like resources discovered on(you can copy/paste from a text file, for isntance), or you can discover computers directly from Active Directory(your Windows domain).

Select Computers


If you selected the Active Directory discovery, you'll be presented with this screen, where you can further choose which computer(s) to discover resources on. This is organized based on the "Organizational Units" or "OU's" defined in Active Directory. You can easily select/deselect an entire group by checking the appropriate checkbox.

Resource Types


This screen lets you specify the resources you'd like discovered. For each resource type, you can also click the "..." button to specify different defaults for common settings.

Resource Settings


This screen lets you define the common resource settings for all your newly discovered resources.

Select Resources


This screen lets you select the resources you'd like created. You can easily check/uncheck entire branches of items by clicking the parent item. Note that for services, only services that are running at the time of the test are defaulted to checked.

Creating Resources


Please wait on this screen as Overseer creates your resources. This may take a few minutes if you have a large number of resources to be created.

Complete


Once the creation process completes, you'll be presented with this 'Complete' screen, indicating how many resources were created. Click the 'Finish' button, and you'll see your resources in the main Overseer resources display.

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