Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Administrator's Guide Volume 1

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10.2.5 Managing the device change log (Device Change Log)

You can use this job to manage change log information, such as the system CPU, memory size, and disk space. You can detect increases or changes in memories, hard disk drives, etc., by browsing for changes in memory size and disk space. You can also use this job to manage the change logs of IP addresses and MAC addresses.

The device change log is acquired when inventory information is registered.

To manage the device change log, start from the Device Change Log window, which is displayed by clicking the Device Change Log job menu item. The following figure shows the Device Change Log window.

Figure 10-14 Device Change Log window

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If you click the Asset No. link on the search results list, the Device Details dialog box is displayed, enabling you to browse the details of the associated devices.

Organization of this subsection
(1) Collecting the change log for a specified period
(2) Collecting change logs for network addresses

(1) Collecting the change log for a specified period

In the Device Change Log window, specify as the search condition the period covered by the device change logs that you want to acquire. You can check the device change logs covering the specified period with respect to a device's CPU, memory, and disk capacity.

If you want to know the time of changes to a device's CPU, memory, or disk space, or if you want to see the change log related to the system facilities for each device, select the managed group, specify in Update date the start date and termination date for the period whose log you desire, and then search.

If the start date is omitted and only the end date is specified, the log is collected from the earliest date that inventory information log was collected until the specified end date.

If the end date is omitted and only the start date is specified, the log is collected from the specified start date until the most recent log date.

(2) Collecting change logs for network addresses

To discover if an IP address or a MAC address has changed, specify Network address as a search condition.

Before you can acquire change logs for network addresses (IP or MAC addresses), you must first use the Acquire Device Update Record Items job menu to set IP addresses and MAC addresses as items for which to acquire change logs. For details about setting items to collect as change logs, see 10.8.6 Selecting the items to be acquired as device change logs (Acquire Device Update Record Items).

For Network address, IP addresses and MAC addresses are displayed in the form IP-address - MAC-address. If change logs are set to be acquired for only one of these types of addresses, however, only change logs for addresses of that type are displayed.

Note:
The MAC address value is used as the key for acquiring change logs for network addresses. For this reason, if MAC addresses are not set to be acquired as change logs, a change log might be acquired even if the IP address has not changed.