This guide will walk you through setting up Hudu Radar as an admin, including enabling the application, downloading and deploying it, configuring device requirements, and mapping asset layouts. You can also view a video walkthrough in our Radar video series.
Requirements
- A Hudu Radar trial or tier has been started in Hudu HQ.
- Please see our Hudu Radar Licensing article for more information.
- User is at least an admin in the Hudu instance.
Enabling Application
To enable the Hudu Radar application, Authentication is required. Please see our Hudu Radar Authentication article for more information.
- Navigate to Admin → Hudu Radar. If your Hudu Radar trial or tier was started from Hudu HQ, Hudu Radar may already appear in the Admin sidebar.
If you are not seeing Hudu Radar in Admin → Hudu Radar, start a trial or select a tier by navigating to Admin → Integrations, finding the Hudu Radar card under Monitoring, and clicking Get Radar, or start it directly from your Hudu HQ account. Then navigate to Admin → License Key and click Refresh next to the Hudu Radar collectors count. Please visit our guide for more information on Hudu Radar Licensing.
- To get started, you'll need to establish a connection between Hudu Radar and your Hudu HQ Account:
- Click Initiate Connection.
- Once the connection is initiated, complete the connection by logging in to Hudu HQ by clicking the Log In button.
- Your Hudu instance should now be connected to Hudu HQ. Click Enable Hudu Radar to continue setup.
Downloading Application
To download the Hudu Radar application:
- Enable Hudu Radar.
- Click Download Radar.
- Choose your preferred file type.
Note: See our GUI install or silent install guides.
Deployment
To run Hudu Radar completely as a silent service:
- Follow the silent install guide to deploy over RMM.
Device Requirements
Hudu Radar allows you to define your preferred default global device data point requirements:
- Choose required device data points. Devices missing required data will stay in Hudu Radar until completed manually.
Note: Hudu Radar will always scan for all data points and populate as many as possible, regardless of which data points are marked as required.
Asset Layout Setup
Let's explore how to assign a device type to an asset layout.
Asset Layout Mapping
- Hudu Radar will create assets for each device type based on the assigned asset layout selected.
- Leave blank to skip asset creation and only create an IP address entry in IPAM.
Note: A device must be mapped to an asset layout in order to use asset layout field mapping.
Asset Layout Field Mapping
- Navigate to Admin → Asset Layouts.
- Select the asset layout you would like to map Radar data points to for a given device type.
- Select an existing field or add a new one. Hudu Radar supports Text and Rich Text fields. Use Rich Text for CPUs, Disks, and Interfaces so they format correctly.
- In the field's properties, choose a data point under Hudu Radar data point. Radar will try to fill in the field with that data point. Leave it blank if you don't want Radar to populate the field.
A field can use a Radar data point or an integration source, not both. Selecting a Radar data point turns off the field's integration source options, and clearing it turns them back on.
Warranty Expirations
Note: Date fields can be used to create a warranty expiration if vendor and serial numbers are found. Supported Vendors: Dell, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Microsoft.