About Devices

Devices are the systems, or items, that you monitor and maintain for your customer to ensure their business goals are met.

There are three types of devices in N-able N-central:

1. Network device – such as a workstation, laptop, server, router/switch, printer, scanner, or a storage device.
2. Mobile device – such as a smartphone or tablet.
3. Cloud service device – either an Office 365 resource or another SaaS offering.

For each device, you can view and maintain the device integrity, and manage functions such as patch management, anti-virus, backups and disk encryption. Availability of features depends on the type of device and features your customer has requested.

What do you want to do?

• Add a mobile device
• Add a network device
• Add a SaaS device
• Learn about the available device details
• Add a note to a device
• Apply service templates to a device
• Configure the type of network address used on device discovery
• Create a downtime maintenance window
• Create a reboot maintenance window
• Create a scheduled maintenance window
• Delete a device
• Learn about Direct Device Support
• Generate device reports
• Globally change all device network addresses format
• Learn about scheduled maintenance windows
• Locate inactive computers
• Move devices between customers and sites
• Re-apply a service template to a device
• Reboot a device
• Remove a service template association for a device
• Reset the System Change service baseline for a device
• Review patches installed on a device
• See the device's components on the Device Details screen
• Learn how SNMP is used to monitor devices
• Update device asset data
• Update monitoring software on a device
• View component associations for a device