DELL Version 5.3 User Manual

 | Change Management / ProScan

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Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s change management utility is ProScan, which lets you scan 

stored configurations to verify managed devices compliance with company, department or industry 

standards. This application automatically tracks all changes occurring to managed devices. You can 

report on user-specified values found in persisted backup configuration files for a group of devices. 

This lets network managers, security officers and external auditors generate detailed audit trail 

documents to validate compliance with both internal standards (ISO 17799, NSA Guidelines) as 

well as industry regulations (Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA).
Compliance reporting lets you specify a text string, regular expression, or optionally the generated 

configlet from File Management (NetConfig) for matching. Group results must be separated by 

device like Adaptive CLI Manager. When ProScan policies run, the application emits notifications 

whose contents depend on whether compliance was or was not maintained. 

Your system may have several ProScan examples. You can use these as provided, or alter them to suit 

your network.

Use ProScan / Change Management

The following outlines common use cases for this software, and the steps to achieve the goals of 

each case:

1

Create ProScan policy(ies) based on what indicates compliance. Right-click New > Policy in 

the ProScan portlet.

2

Specify the Name and Input source (based on Device Backup, Current Config, Configuration 

Label, By Date and Adaptive CLI Results)