Build your first device list

Getting started

The shortest path from an empty device list to a completed run and a result you can interpret.

Getting started

Installation

What your machine needs, how the two distribution forms differ, which folder your settings live in, and what happens when it updates.

Installation

Adding devices

Importing the address list you already keep in WinBox, finding devices on your network segment directly, and saving the ones you use often as a group for next time.

Adding devices

Make everyday work easier

Running commands

Choosing a kind of connection, setting how many devices run at once, reading each device’s status, and what each result actually means — especially "completed" and "outcome uncertain".

Running commands

Port monitoring

Presenting the ports of multiple devices on one screen, interpreting the colour coding, and interrupting and restoring power to a port where that is required.

Port monitoring

Network topology

Assembling a picture from several devices, reading what it based each conclusion on, and exporting the whole thing as a file.

Network topology

Health check

Choosing which groups to check, reading the levels and the numbers behind them, marking the things you know are fine, and exporting the result to hand on.

Health check

When something goes wrong

Connection failures, capabilities unavailable over a given connection type, the correct response to an uncertain outcome, and how to escalate.

Troubleshooting

Cannot find what you need?

The FAQ covers the questions that arise before adoption. For anything further, contact support.