Neurons for Healing
Ivanti Neurons (feature) is being deprecated and replaced with the new Ivanti Neurons Bots experience. Please refer to Migrating to Neurons Bots for further information.
Neurons for Healing is designed to increase the efficiency and security of your environment. Neurons created in this feature can automate the monitoring, alerting, and remediation of issues within your estate, giving you key insights and enabling you to be more proactive around unreported issues and changes.
Neurons can provide accurate insight, autonomously self-heal endpoints and edge devices, and optimize device performance health and security. Helping to reduce time and costs, and improve end-user experience by detecting and resolving issues before they become problems for your users.
Creating a Neuron in Ivanti Neurons for Healing
To create a Neuron:
- From the Neurons home screen, click Manage Neurons on the Neurons for Healing tile.
The Neurons for Healing management page appears. - Click Create Neuron.
The Neuron Builder appears. - From Neuron Builder > My Stages, select and drag stages onto the workspace to build up the Neuron.
- Highlight a stage to configure it using the Stage Settings panel on the right-hand side of the page.
The available controls appear. - Click Join to connect it to another stage.
All stages must be connected to at least one other stage. - Click Settings
in the top right toolbar to open the Neuron Settings panel and give it a name using the Name text field at the top, then click OK. - In the Category drop-down, select the category that you want the Neuron to belong to.
The categories available are: Compliance, User Productivity, Business Continuity, Resource Optimization. - Click Target Group
to open the Target Group panel, then select one of the following:
Custom: Allows you to select one or more of your configured device groups. To set up a group go to Neurons Platform > Devices > Groups and create a public group, it will then be available in this drop-down list.
All Devices: Allows you to target all Ivanti Neurons Agents. We advise caution against using this option, as depending on the Neuron this could be destructive. - Click OK to close the Target Group panel, and OK again to close the Settings panel.
- Click Save & Close.
The Neuron Output page displays. -
For more details on the Neuron Builder and for neuron workflow examples, see Neuron Workflow Builder.
Testing a Neuron in Ivanti Neurons for Healing
After building your Neuron you can test it by running it against selected devices.
To test a Neuron:
- To manually run a Scheduled Neuron, navigate to the Neuron Output page for that Neuron.
- Click Run Now in the top right toolbar.
- Each time you choose to run this Neuron manually you are presented with a Select a target group dialog which requires you to select devices to run the Neuron against.
There are three options:
Configured: If you have configured a target group as part of the Neuron settings then this option is available for you to select, otherwise it will not appear.
Custom: Allows you to select one or more of your configured device groups. To set up a group go to Neurons Platform > Devices > Groups and create a public group, it will then be available in this drop-down list.
All Devices: Allows you to target all Ivanti Neurons Agents. We advise caution against using this option as depending on the Neuron this could be destructive. - Once you have selected the target group, click Run Now.
Each time the Neuron is run a unique run number (#) is created and will appear in the timeline graph on the Neuron Output page. Click on any instance on the timeline to display the run details. - Continue to edit and refine your Neuron. Conduct manual runs to test the Neuron until you are confident and ready to publish.
Activating a Neuron in Ivanti Neurons for Healing
The status of a Neuron in Ivanti Neurons for Healing is either Inactive or Active. The default status is set to Inactive until you set it to Active and configure a schedule for it to run on.
- Inactive: The Neuron is available and can be run manually at any point by clicking Run Now, but will not run to an automated schedule.
- Active: The Neuron is available can be run manually at any point by clicking Run Now, and will automatically run to the schedule configured.
To activate a Neuron:
- Navigate to the Neuron output page.
- Click Edit Neuron to open the Neuron Builder.
- Click Settings in the top right toolbar to open the Settings panel.
- In the Settings panel click on Target Group to open the Target Group panel.
- Select a target device group to assign to the Neuron.
At least one target group must be assigned at all times for the Neuron to remain active. Click OK to confirm. - In the Settings panel, click Status Configuration to open the Status Configuration panel, use the toggle to change the status to Active. You can use the same toggle to deactivate a scheduled Neuron.
When the status is set to Active the Schedule Settings become available. Configure the schedule: repeats, frequency, interval, start date/time, and end date/time. - Click OK to close the Settings panel.
- Click Save & Close or Save to save the changes.