Working with Discovered Assets

For an introduction to Asset Discovery, see What are Discovered Assets?.

This topic explains how to:

View your Discovered Assets in the TLC Console,

Create a new Monitored Asset for a Discovered Asset, and

Export Discovered Asset data to a CSV, JSON, or XML file.

To view Discovered Assets in the TLC Console, your user account must have the following user permissions (see Working with User Permissions): 

Discovered Assets > View Assets

API > Allow REST API Logon

To create a new Monitored Asset for a Discovered Asset, your user account must have the following user permission:

Monitored Assets > Add Monitored Asset 

To work with your Discovered Assets:

1. In the side bar, select Events >Discovered AssetsDiscovered Assets.

TLC presents all of your Discovered Assets in the View Assets tab of the Discovered Assets page (see Table 58).

2. To limit the View Assets tab to the Assets discovered by a specific Manager, select the Manager from the Display data for drop-down and clickRefreshRefresh.

To page through Discovered Assets, use the pagination buttons (i.e., First Page buttonFirst Page, Previous PagePrevious Page, Next Page buttonNext Page, and Last Page buttonLast Page).

To create a new Monitored Asset for a Discovered Asset:

a. Select the table row containing the Discovered Asset.
b. Right-click the Asset and select Add Monitored Asset.

To exclude a Discovered Asset(s) from the View Assets tab (now and in the future):

a. Select the table row containing the Discovered Asset.
b. Right-click the Asset and select Exclude Discovered Asset(s).

To export Discovered Assets:

a. In the workspace, click Export Discovered AssetsExport Discovered Assets.
b. Complete the Export Discovered Assets dialog and click Save.

Table 58. Columns in the View Assets tab of the Discovered Assets page

Column

Description

Discovered Asset Hostname

The hostname of the Discovered Asset.

Discovered Asset IP

The IP address of the Discovered Asset.

First Seen

The date and time of the earliest log message which included the Discovered Asset's IP address.

Last Seen

The date and time of the latest log message which included the Discovered Asset's IP address.

Manager ID

The ID of the TLC Manager with the Audit Logger File Store in which the Asset was discovered.

Monitored Asset Hostname

The hostname of the existing Asset from which the log message(s) containing the Discovered Asset was collected.

Monitored Asset IP

The IP address of the existing Asset from which the log message(s) containing the Discovered Asset was collected.