Creating a Collection Task

The MgC Agent (formerly Edge) provides multiple types of collectors for you to collect resource specifications and configuration information. This section describes how to use a collector to create a collection task.

Prerequisites

You have installed the MgC Agent and registered an account.
The required collectors have been installed.

Procedure

Use the registered username and password to log in to the MgC Agent console. In the navigation pane, choose Tasks.
Click Create. On the displayed Create Task page, select the collector based on the resources to be collected and click Next.
In the Task Info area, customize the task name. In the Collector Settings area, set collector parameters based on Configuring Collector Parameters. Parameters with are mandatory.
After the configuration is complete, click OK. You can view the data source collection statuses in the task list.

After the data source is successfully collected, obtain the collection results in any of the following ways:
- Click Download JSON in the Operation column of the task to save the collection result as a JSON file. The file is used to import the collection result to the MgC for application association analysis. For details, see Importing Tool Discovery Results.
- Click Download CSV in the Operation column of the task to locally save the collection result as a CSV file.
- Click View Storage Path in the Operation column of a task to view the path for saving the discovery results.