Add & Manage Collectors

Collectors are logical entities composed of discovery settings. Users create and then configure them to flow among a Command Center and one or more Scouts, gathering data.  The collectors carry indexing and discovery definitions, instantiate and perform passive, active, and targeted discovery, reference interfaces, watch message queues, and transmit collected data back to the Command Center. 

Multiple collectors can work together collaboratively within a zone, collecting and exchanging more network data as a unit than any one of them could alone. Collectors can also be configured to not share information, which is useful when you want to contain the time-to or scope-of discovery, ensure that discovery does not extend out to a classified enclave or the Internet, or more clearly understand what results are generated by a particular collector's activity. 

A collector does not probe a network or perform any activity until you enable it. Also, a collector that has not been associated with any discovery settings will not run.  Collectors can be associated with either a Command Center or a Scout.


To manage a variety of collectors, you'll need to know how to add, edit and disable them. This page covers the basics. See Collector Configuration & Rescanning and Configuration for more.

Add Collector & Enable Collector

This procedure describes how to add a collector to the Command Center's own internal interface. To enable a collector, just select the Enable Collector checkbox during this procedure. If your system is distributed, you will also need to assign collectors to Scouts.

  1. Go to Settings > Zones.

  2. In the Available Zones list, select the zone for the collector.

  3. Click Zone Collectors > Add.

  4. Complete the modal fields and click Add.

    • Select the Enable Collector checkbox to immediately start collecting data.

    • Clear the Enable Collector checkbox for the collector to run at another time.

    • The Rescan Interval sets how often the collector performs its routine in minutes.

      • The Interface identifies the component—Command Center or Scout—to associate the collector. This is managed in Settings > Asset Manager Systems.

Edit Collector

  1. Go to Settings > Zones.

  2. Select the zone and collector to revise, and then click Edit.

  3. Revise the settings as needed, and then click Save.

Disable Collector

Collectors are often defined, used, and reused across a number of zones and by a variety of Asset Manager users. Consequently, collectors are activated and deactivated as needed, rather than deleted. Deactivate your collectors before upgrading to the next version of Asset Manager.

  1. Go to Settings > Zones.

  2. Select the zone containing the collector to disable, and then click Edit.

  3. Clear the Enable Collector checkbox.

  4. Click Update.