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  • For stand alone installation of the Snare Agent Manager on Windows:
    Upon installation, start a browser and navigate to https://localhost:6261. Login with your credentials, using 'admin' as a username. After login you are presented with the SAM dashboard.
  • For Snare Agent Manager running on Snare Central Server,
    log in to the Snare Central Server web user interface and navigate to Agent Management | Snare Agent Manager. The Snare Agent Manager opens in a new tab.
  • When you access SAM for the first time after the installation, you will be greeted with a welcome screen with options to continue your journey with SAM. 
    Click Take me to the Dashboard.

  • If your dashboard does not have any agent information, then you may add a network to scan for agents.  The scan will search for all legacy (pre version 5.0) agents and version 5 agents.

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The dashboard displays the following content:

Agents

A bar graph displays the communication status of the agents, either reachable or non-reachable.  A reachable agent is an agent that SAM can communicate with, whereas an unreachable agent is an agent that has not been seen by SAM in the last five minutes.

The Class of Agents table will list the number of agents categorized by Modern, Upgradeable, OpenSource.  You may select the graph icon to update the graphical representation of agents by operating system or agent type.

Licenses

Information on license usage is displayed here.  The featured licenses are listed and the allowance is displayed in a  bar graph.  The active licenses and its expiry and support expiry is listed.  Any license messages are listed, on expiring, allocation exhaustion, etc.  Select the drill down icon adjacent the feature or active license to see the agents affected by the license information.

You can go to the license usage page by selecting the Detailed License Utilization button. 

Networks

The networks are populated in this section, if they exist, displaying the number of agents found on each network and the date/time of the last scan.

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