Options

The Options window can be opened by clicking the  Options button in the top right corner of the program.

General

Regional Settings

Set the interface language, date format, and currency settings. You can specify the first day of the week by selecting the required day from the list.

The Use relative dates option will allow you to display a relative time format in reports. For example, “Today” will be displayed instead of “Apr 25, 2023”.

By setting the Custom date format, specify the desired date format. The time format can be set as follows (for example, the date is April 25, 2023):

  • y — 23
  • yy — 2023 (with leading zero)
  • yyyy — 2023
  •  
  • m — 4
  • mm — 04 (with leading zero)
  • mmm — apr
  • mmmm — April
  •  
  • d — 25
  • dd — 25 (with leading zero)
  • ddd — Tu
  • dddd — Tuesday
  • ddddd — 04.25.2023
  • dddddd — 25 April 2023

When you select Currencies in the quick list, the marked currencies will be displayed first throughout the main program window.

Network settings

Check the online status of assets periodically: automatically ping network nodes every few seconds.

If the option is disabled and the Online Status Assistant is active, then the ping result for all devices will be unknown and displayed as a gray icon.

Handling of dynamic IP addresses: choose how to resolve hostnames when pinging devices in a DHCP network, or disable name resolution and always use the last known IP address.

The following settings are available:

  • Determine the IP address by the fully qualified domain name each time you access it
  • Determine the IP address from the short hostname each time you access it
  • Always use the last known IP address

Active Directory Synchronization Settings

When synchronizing with Active Directory, the following options are available:

  • Do not add empty OUs
  • Delete missing groups
  • Do not add disabled computers
  • Overwrite user data with data from AD
  • Remove users that do not exist in AD
  • Delete users that are disabled in AD

The Computers not found option allows you to move devices to a separate group or delete them.

Proxy settings

If you use a proxy server, enable the corresponding option. Use the proxy settings from Internet Explorer or configure the proxy manually by specifying the proxy type (HTTP/HTTP Connect; SOCKS4; SOCKS5), server, port, user, and password.

Other

Additional settings that do not belong to any other category.

Check for updates – allows you to completely disable the check for updates or check for updates at startup.

Show last blog post – Enable or disable the display of the latest blog post in the title bar of the TNI window next to the Feedback and Options buttons.

Authenticate File Certificates – On startup, TNI automatically verifies the digital certificates of its executable files. If the setting is enabled, the program will additionally check the validity of these certificates.

Use compact mode tabs when window space is limited – Enables or disables full tab mode names. When enabled and window space is limited, TNI will display inactive modes as icons. If necessary, you can change the order and number of displayed modes in their display settings.

Scanner

Settings that control the scanner’s behavior, as well as the default asset distinction and snapshot auto-deletion policies for all storages.

Low Level Scan Settings

These settings affect low-level hardware scanning. Enabling low-level scanning allows TNI to collect more hardware information but may cause system crashes on some devices. Disabling it avoids possible BSODs, although some hardware information will not be available in reports.

A full low-level scan can cause BSODs in Intel disk drivers. If this driver is installed on the system, disable this mode.

If the low-level scanning mode is enabled, sensor data collection becomes available.

General Scan Settings

Skip existing devices – this option allows you to skip devices during scanning if they were already scanned less than “X” hours ago.

Show MAC addresses and manufacturer names – allows you to show or hide MAC addresses and manufacturer names. You can choose between Abbreviated name (the full name and MAC address are shown in a tooltip) and Full name (displayed next to the device).

Auto-pick logins – If a scan attempt fails because of invalid credentials, TNI automatically tries other accounts available in the Storage until a suitable one is found. Only accounts matching the corresponding Windows, Unix, SNMP, or VMware protocol are used.

Network discovery settings

Network discovery allows you to quickly find assets within a scan task. TNI discovers assets by sending ping requests.

Use network discovery: if this option is disabled, all network nodes will be scanned by checking their open ports (without using ICMP and ARP ping).

For example, if you disable network discovery and add the IP range 192.168.0.1 — 192.168.0.100, the program will attempt to scan all nodes within this range.

You can choose from two discovery methods:

Classic engine is based on the discovery mechanism built into TNI. You can set the number of ping attempts, the timeout and select one of the following profiles:

  • Quick (shallow): asynchronous ping of IP ranges and networks only. Useful for very large ranges.
  • Normal: asynchronous ping + normal ping. A bit slower, but more thorough.
  • Slow: includes both asynchronous ping and normal ping, plus also scans TCP ports of the nodes that don’t respond to ping requests.

Do not use the Slow profile if you have any intrusion detection/protection system in your network. For example, Symantec Endpoint Protection.

General ping settings allow you to enable or disable ARP ping.

Port scan settings

The following port scanning profiles are available:

  •  Safe profile — only 3-4 ports (135,139 and 445; 22 for SSH) are checked. Compatible with intrusion detection systems like Symantec Endpoint Protection and others.
  • Light profile — check the 10 most commonly open ports (21, 22, 23, 25, 80, 110, 135, 139, 443 and 445). The timeout can be configured for this profile (by default 1000ms).

Scan settings

Do not delete the agent file after scanning — leaves the agent’s file on a remote device. This reduces network traffic on subsequent scans.

Disable the RPC protocol for scanning of Windows computers — enable this option to prevent TNI from using the RPC protocol when scanning Windows computers.

Disable the SMB protocol for scanning of Windows computers — enable this option to exclude the protocol on a remote computer while scanning.

Enable Windows updates scan — activate this option to receive information about Windows updates available for download. Obtaining this data can lead to a significant increase in scanning time. You can set a timeout to limit how long TNI waits for update information. If the information is not received at the specified time, the update check for the current node will be skipped. By default, the timeout for receiving updates is 10 minutes.

Windows update information is unavailable when only the RPC scanning method is used.

SSH settings — you can set your own SSH port or/and use the default SSH port (22) as well.

If a scan fails, enable the Save asset to the inventory database as non-scanned option to add the device to the inventory even when no scan data is collected.

Software database

The options on this page allow you to configure the Software accounting and Licenses modes.

The Hide software with zero installations option lets you control which software is displayed in the Software accounting module.

The Automatically add keys detected during scanning to matching licenses option automatically adds detected license keys to the corresponding licenses.

Hold the ALT key while opening the TNI Options window, the Update software database option becomes available.

This is only required if problems occur with the Software accounting and Licenses modules.

Reports

Printable reports

The settings section allows you to enter the name of the report author, as well as include the following information in the report header: storage name, company logo, report author name, company name, and report creation time.

The Each asset on new page option is applicable for the Viewer&Reports mode only.

Group summary

The settings section allows you to enable or disable the display of the following options in printable reports: pie charts; online status; physical assets; virtual assets; manufacturers; models (with or without manufacturer names); OS; alerts; CPU model release year (you can enable the sorting option in descending order); physical memory (optionally sorted in descending order); unscanned assets; assets added manually and last scan.

The company title and logo printed in the header are part of the Storage properties.

When changing any of the options while using Viewer and Reports mode, press F5 to refresh the report and apply the new settings.

Other

The Update reports automatically option causes TNI to rebuild reports automatically whenever the selection of report object, category or template changes.

The Maximum number of rows in a tabular report option limits the number of rows in generated tabular reports (500,000 by default). Set it to 0 to remove the limit.

The Show excluded sensors in Sensors reports enables or disables the display of sensors that have been added to the exclusion list in the report.

Network map

This page allows you to edit settings that are common for every network map that you create, such as the autosave and font settings.

For more information, see Network map.

Alerts

On this page, you can enable, disable and configure alerts.

Standard alerts

Device information is out of date – this alert notifies you if the last scan was more than “X” days ago (default value is 30 days). Enable Show for unscanned devices if you want to be notified.

The Low free disk space option will allow you to specify the parameters of the minimum threshold for triggering an alert in Gigabytes and percentages (default is 5 GB and 10%).

Other available standard alerts:

  • Antivirus issues
  • Firewall issues
  • Update Status
  • Outdated service pack

Software and license alerts

Select which alerts to display when using the Software Accounting and License Accounting modules

The following alerts are available:

  • Track software availability
  • Track missing software
  • License has expired
  • License expires soon

Specify how many days in advance to notify you before a license expires (30 days by default). This option is available only if license expiration dates are specified in the license properties window.

S.M.A.R.T. disk diagnostic alerts

This section allows you to set the trigger thresholds and specify the types of drive alerts.

The analysis is based on either the current or the worst value.

The following S.M.A.R.T. attributes support configurable alert thresholds:

  • (05) Number of reassigned sectors
  • (BB) Number of drive errors
  • (BC) Number of operations timed out
  • (C5) Number of replacement candidate sectors
  • (C6) Number of sectors with uncorrectable errors

For example, the threshold offset value is 30, the S.M.A.R.T. – 10, the alert will be triggered when the S.M.A.R.T. – 40.

The Drive remaining life option lets you specify the minimum acceptable value of the Drive remaining life attribute before an alert is triggered.

Hardware sensor alerts

This section allows you to set the response thresholds and specify the type of equipment sensor alerts.

The following hardware sensor alerts support configurable thresholds:

  • CPU temperature – allows you to set the maximum CPU temperature, °C
  • GPU temperature – allows you to set the maximum GPU temperature, °C
  • Motherboard temperature – allows you to set the maximum motherboard temperature, °C
  • Storage temperature — allows you to set the maximum storage temperature, °C
  • CPU fan speed – allows you to set the minimum and maximum thresholds, rpm
  • Motherboard fan speed – allows you to set the minimum and maximum thresholds, rpm
  • Battery – you can set the minimum allowable remaining battery capacity at which an alert is triggered,%

Activate the “No alerts message in reports” option to display a “No Alerts” message when no alerts are present.

For more information, see Alerts.

Logon script

This page allows you to export the standalone scanner and generate a command line for Logon script scan.

Use the Export Audit Agent button to place a copy of the Windows Agent (tniwinagent.exe) in a shared folder of your choice. Make sure that the computers being scanned have read access to the selected folder.

Path to agent specifies the path to the agent executable. The specified path must contain the tniwinagent.exe file.

In the Save path field, specify a separate folder that will contain the data files generated by the agent. This folder must be accessible from the network and grant computers permission to write and modify files if the /overwrite option is used.

You can configure the Pre-Scan Delay to reduce potential interference with programs launched automatically at startup.

Overwrite existing files – if this setting is enabled, old versions of data files will be replaced with new ones when the device is scanned again.

Changing these parameters updates the command line for the logon script. You can copy the command and paste it into the logon script manually, or let the program do it for you by clicking Add Command to Script.

Attention

The results of a Logon script scan are the same as those of a manual scan performed with the /noadmin flag. Scanning over SMB using the Scanner mode or Resident Agent is recommended because it collects more information.

Actions

Choose how the Action list (available from the Network tree context menus) behaves and access the editable custom actions file. Also, here you’ll find a summary of all templates and keywords of the action definition syntax: click an item to copy it, or hover over it to view a tooltip.

For more information, see Actions.

SNMP

On this page, you can configure full SNMP scanning.

Adjust the number of SNMP scan attempts (default: 1) and timeout (default: 1000ms) as needed.

Enabling a full SNMP scan allows you to collect complete information from devices that support SNMP by performing an SNMP walk. When this mode is disabled, only some general information from the “system” and “interfaces” sections is collected.

Enable scanning by OID list allows you to scan SNMP devices using a specified list of OIDs.

Tips

  • Increase the number of scan attempts to e.g., 3 and the timeout to e.g., 3000 ms for more complete and reliable data collection.

  • By specifying values in the OID list and disabling the full SNMP scan, the program will significantly speed up the scanning process.

TNI contains a package of over 300 standard MIB files. They allow you to decode many device fields in the SNMP tree (meaningful names for parameters will be displayed instead of OIDs) and display additional information in field tooltips in View and Reports mode.

Enable the Check for package updates on startup to have TNI check our server for updated MIB packages when the program starts. If necessary, click the Check for update button to check the MIB packages immediately.

You can also import additional MIB files downloaded from device manufacturers here.

Confirmations

Here, you can disable the default deletion confirmation prompts if you find them unnecessary, or re-enable them to help prevent accidental deletion of objects.

Deletion confirmation is available for the following objects:

  • Devices and groups
  • Users
  • Scan tasks
  • Logins
  • Report Templates
  • Maps and objects on the map
  • Data transfer methods
  • Scheduled Tasks

Enable Ask before closing the program if there are active tasks in the next 7 days to receive a warning before closing the program when such tasks exist in the Scheduler.

Logs

This page contains notification settings.

Enable the following event notifications as needed:

  • When a new device is added to the storage
  • When a device is updated in the storage
  • When a new software version is automatically added to merged software

For more information, see Application events.

Barcodes

Here, you can configure the output and display settings for barcodes.

You can also specify a hot key to quickly switch to the barcode search mode.

Tip

To make it easier to find a device in the storage when using an external barcode scanner, assign the configured hot key to the scanner prefix (<PREFIX><DATA><ENTER>).

Select found device for processing – This option is available only in single-selection mode in the network tree. If this option is disabled, the found device is only highlighted in the network tree.

Enable Hide the barcode value for 1D barcodes to hide the text displayed beneath 1D barcodes.

For more information, see Barcodes.

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