Machine Details
A machine within Xylok is an individual computer, virtual machine, network device, or other system under test.
Similar to Clients and Locations, Machines have a management screen where most actions for that machine are taken.
On this screen are:
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Machine metadata: Name, short name (used for most displays), location, client, and family. Also displayed here are items for developing a hardware inventory: make/model of the device, serial number, IP(s), MAC address(es), hostname, fully qualified domain name, and a general purpose description. This section also allows you to delete a machine (all existing scan data for the machine must be removed) or duplicate it. Duplicating a machine copies all settings and names the new machines with increasing numbers appended to the end.
After a Scan has been imported, or after any Post-Processing has been done, Xylok will sometimes automatically fill in some of these fields. For a more detailed overview of this functionality, see Automatic Machine Data Collection. -
Question Answers: The most-specific level for answering benchmark questions. See Question Answers under Clients for more details.
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Benchmarks: The benchmarks assigned to this machine. See Benchmarks for more details.
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Scans: Recent scans performed on this machine. Clicking one will take the user to the analysis page for that scan. This box also allows the script for just this device to be downloaded as a ZIP. See Downloading Collection Scripts for more details. Current Findings: Displays findings from the most recent scan of the system.
To add/change the benchmarks assigned to a machine, click the “Edit” button in the Benchmarks section. Using the dropdown on the page that appears, tailor the list to the specific benchmarks needed for a machine. Clicking outside the dropdown will allow you to save the new settings.
A machine family is the group of “like functionality” machines that should be analyzed/baselined together. A machine is not required to have a family and a machine’s family can be freely changed at any time. More details about machine families can be found in Machine Families.