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Endpoint types

Computers

To view the computers under your account, go to the Network page from the left side menu and choose Computers and Virtual Machines from the views selector.

You can view the available network structure in the left-side pane and details about each endpoint in the right-side pane.

At first, all computers and virtual machines detected in your network are displayed as unmanaged so that you can remotely install protection on them.

To customize the computer details displayed in the table:

  1. Click the columns.png Columns button at the right side of the action toolbar.

  2. Select the columns you want to view.

  3. Click the Reset button to return to the default columns view.

From the Network page, you can manage computers as follows:

To view the latest information in the table, click the refresh.png Refresh button in the bottom-left corner of the table. This may be needed when you spend more time on the page.

Virtual machines

To view the virtualized infrastructure under your account, go to the Network page from the left side menu and choose Virtual Machines from the views selector.

Note

You can manage virtual machines also from the Computers and Virtual Machines view, but you can view your virtualized infrastructure and filter its content using specific criteria only from the Virtual Machines view.

For more details about working with network views, refer to Working with Network views.

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You can view the available virtual machine networks in the left-side pane and details about each virtual machine in the right-side pane.

To customize the virtual machine details displayed in the table:

  1. Click the columns.png Columns button at the upper-right side of the right pane.

  2. Select the columns you want to view.

  3. Click the Reset button to return to the default columns view.

The left-side pane displays a tree-like view of the virtual infrastructure. The root of the tree is called Virtual Machines and the virtual machines are grouped beneath the root, under the following categories based on the virtualization technology provider:

  • Nutanix Inventory

    Contains the list of Nutanix Prism Element systems you have access to.

  • VMware Inventory

    Contains the list of vCenter servers you have access to.

  • Citrix Inventory

    Contains the list of XenServer systems you have access to.

  • Custom Groups

    Contains the security servers and the virtual machines detected in your network outside any vCenter Server or a XenServer system.

The left-side pane also contains a menu called Views from which the user can select the view type for each virtualization technology provider.

To access the virtualized infrastructure integrated with Control Center, you must provide your user credentials for each vCenter Server system available. Once you have entered your credentials, they are saved to your Credentials Manager so that you do not need to enter them the next time. For more information, refer to Credentials Manager.

From the Network section, you can manage virtual machines as follows:

In the Configuration > Network Settings section, you can configure scheduled rules for automatic cleanup of unused virtual machines from the Network Inventory.

Containers

In this section: