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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1
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Chapter 3 Adding and Troubleshooting Devices Using Device Management
Using the RME Devices Window
Step 1 Check if the Automatically Manage Devices from Credential Repository on Device Management Settings
window (Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Device Mgmt) is disabled.
Step 2 Select Resource Manager Essentials > Devices > Device Management > RME Devices.
The RME Devices dialog box appears.
Step 3 Click Add Devices without selecting any devices from the RME Device Selector.
The Devices in Device Credential Repository dialog box appears.
If there are no devices in Device and Credential Repository that needs to be added in RME, a message
appears,
There are no new devices in DCR. Please click here to add devices in DCR.
If you want to add devices to Device and Credentials Repository, then click on the link or click OK to
exit.
Step 4 Select the devices from the group.
• To select all the devices, select the All Devices check box.
• To select particular device type, select the Device Type Groups check box, and select the device type
(for example, Routers, Switches and Hubs, etc.).
• To select devices from User Defined Groups, select the User-Defined Groups checkbox and expand
the Common Services group till you see the device Display Name and then select the device.
To see the list of selected devices, click on the Selection tab. You can deselect the devices if you want.
You can also search for devices from the Device Selector. For more details, see Using RME Device
Selector.
Step 5 Click Next.
The View RME Attributes dialog box appears with the following information:
Column Name Description
Device Display Name Display name of the device as entered in Device and Credential Repository.
Serial Number Cisco manufacturing serial number from chassis. You can enter 0 to 255
alphanumeric characters.
The default value is Default Not Defined.
SNMP Retry (Count) Number of times, system should try to access devices with SNMP options.
The default value is 2. The minimum value is zero.
SNMP Timeout (Secs) Amount of time, system should wait for a device to respond before it tries to
access it again.
The default value is 2 seconds. The minimum value is zero seconds. There is
no maximum value limit.
Changing the SNMP timeout value affects inventory collection.