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This page contains a detailed technical summary of compatible and incompatible methods for each selected device.

 

 

The main purpose of this view is to identify issues before the scan is even started. The administrator can utilize this information to find out devices which:

 

•... have no compatible methods and thus will not be scanned at all,

•... have certain required methods disabled,

•... are otherwise misconfigured or use unwanted scanning methods.

 

For each method, RayVentory Scan Engine provides a tooltip help which explains why a given method was considered as Incompatible. The tooltip has also secondary function - for methods that are considered OK for a given device, the tooltip information explains why the method has been chosen (for example: the target OS is Windows and its capabilities are sufficient to handle the task).

 

To determine which methods are compatible 3 sources are primarily concerned:

 

•Current RayVentory Scan Engine settings, for example globally excluded inventory methods, HTTP server, remote execution settings, etc.

•Device properties (for example type) and capabilities,

•Additional information gathered from port scanning (only if device type is Unknown).

 

You can ignore recommendations from this wizard page and continue to the next page, even if loading the data has not been finish yet. Keep in mind, that for every device of the type Unknown a separate port scan will be executed to determine which methods (Windows- or Unix-based) will be used. In order to avoid this extra ping sweep on your network, make sure to always set the device type to either Windows or Unix in the device properties.