What is onboarding and how do I start it?

NSP has an onboarding wizard that takes you through the basics of setting up the NSP managed network. You will import artifacts to enable node management, create discovery rules to scan the network, manage node discovery, configure map options, enable statistics collection, and set up user accounts that will grant users specific permissions. This chapter describes each major step of the onboarding wizard.

The onboarding wizard starts automatically when you sign in to NSP for the first time. If you finish or skip the onboarding process, you cannot return to the wizard. A warning explaining this appears and must be confirmed before you can exit, skip, or complete onboarding. If you close the wizard without finishing or skipping it, you can return to it by navigating to the following URL:

https://nsp_ip_address/web/onboarding/home

Once the onboarding wizard is open, you have the following options:

• Get started—Start the onboarding process to set up your managed network.

• Set up in NSP—If you choose this option and complete the configuration outside the wizard, the wizard will still appear the next time an admin user signs in, and that user will be able to review the configurations completed manually in NSP.

• Skip onboarding—Skip the onboarding process entirely. The onboarding screen will not appear again.

Note: When users select Set up in NSP and postpone the onboarding, the onboarding start page will reappear the next time they log in.

While completing steps in the onboarding wizard, you can use the following buttons to navigate:

• Previous step—returns you to the previous step without saving changes.

• Set up later—skips the current step without saving changes and moves to the next step. You can return to a step that you skipped using Previous step, by clicking on it in the navigation tree, or during the final onboarding step (Setup Overview).

• Continue—saves the changes and moves to the next step.