- Return to the UI; your company will now appear in your company dashboard. Press it. Your company overview dashboard will appear. If this is a new company, the list of servers will be empty.
From the top left corner, press “add server” to add your first managed server. Allow up to 30 seconds for the list of servers in the local network to load.
From the list of “All Servers,” select your managed server. If the server does not exist in the list, it might be because the “SQL Server Browser” server is not enabled on the agent‘s server. In this case, you can press “Add server manually” to add the server details manually.
Select one or more servers from the provided list to add them to the list of pre-approved managed servers.
In the list of pre-approved managed servers, update the machine connection credentials and the database connection credentials by pressing the edit icon. For the database connections, you will need to provide system administrative credentials. For the machine connections, a user that is strong enough to read WMI/CPI and performance information from the machine. A domain administrator or local administrator should suffice.
Once the credentials are entered, you will see both “linked” green icons next to the connection, which means that the credentials are validated and the server may be added.
After all the servers you wish to add are pre-approved, you need to check the check box on the right side of the pre-approved list next to the server name and press the “choose servers and continue” to add them.
The new server will be added to the list of monitored servers.
Allow several minutes for the agent to start collecting information. We also recommend that you attach an alert template to the new server to start receiving server alerts.
You will also notice a small repository database has been added to your managed server called “Experda”.
Initial configuration and settings
After you have successfully installed the Experda agent and have add- ed your managed server(s) – now is the time to configure your alerts, collection intervals and maintenance.
A small repository will be installed.