CT-Ops

Hosts Menu Overview

Where to find newly registered hosts in CT-Ops and what each Hosts menu area provides.

The Hosts menu is where CT-Ops turns registered agents into an operational view of your estate. Open Hosts -> All Hosts to see new hosts after they register, review pending approvals, and move from fleet-level status into each host’s monitoring, inventory, management, and tooling pages.

Where new hosts appear

After an agent registers, CT-Ops shows it under Hosts -> All Hosts.

If the enrolment token requires approval, administrators will see the host in the Pending Agent Approval panel at the top of the All Hosts page. Approve the agent to let it begin sending host data, or reject it if the registration is unexpected.

If the enrolment token is configured for auto-approval, the host appears in the main Host Inventory table once registration completes and the agent starts heartbeating.

Menu item	What it is for	Deep dive
All Hosts	Fleet inventory for registered hosts, including approval state, online/offline status, resource hotspots, operating-system breakdown, active alerts, searching, filtering, sorting, and pagination.	All Hosts inventory
Host detail	The page opened from a host row. It links to full guides for Overview, Monitoring, Infrastructure, Inventory, Containers, Activity, Management, and Tools.	Host detail pages
Groups	Named host collections used to organise infrastructure and run controlled batch operations such as patching, scripts, service actions, and Ansible ping checks.	Host groups
Networks	CIDR-based host collections that can auto-assign hosts by IP address, show table or graph views, surface discovered networks, and link network membership back to individual host pages.	Host networks

Capability summary

All Hosts

Pending approvals show agents waiting for administrator approval before they can send data. Replacement requests can be approved as takeovers when an agent is intentionally replacing an existing host.
Fleet summary cards show total hosts, online hosts, offline hosts, hosts with firing alerts, stale hosts, and pending approvals.
Resource hotspots show hosts currently above the configured high-usage threshold for CPU, memory, or disk.
Operating-system breakdown summarises the estate by reported OS and lets operators quickly filter by OS.
Host Inventory is the searchable, filterable, sortable, paginated table of registered hosts. It shows hostname, OS, IP addresses, CPU, memory, disk, last seen time, active alert count, status, and installed-app icons.

Read the workflow details in All Hosts inventory.

Host detail

Overview brings together current CPU, memory, disk, log-error status, vulnerability assessment, system information, agent details, and pinned notes.
Monitoring contains metric charts, heartbeat history, notification charts, and host-level check history.
Infrastructure covers storage, network interfaces, network membership, patch status, services, and host logs.
Inventory covers installed packages and vulnerability findings for the selected host.
Containers shows Docker/container inventory when container collection is available.
Activity covers notes and calendar events tied to the host.
Management covers local users, host groups, collection settings, and host metadata.
Tools covers task execution, task logs, terminal access, host deletion, and optional agent uninstall during deletion.

Read the entry guide in Host detail pages, then use the dedicated pages for Host overview, Host monitoring, Host infrastructure, Host inventory, Host containers, Host activity, Host management, and Host tools.

Groups

Group list lets operators create, edit, delete, and open named host groups while seeing each group’s description, host count, and creation time.
Group membership lets operators add hosts to a group, remove hosts from a group, and open each member’s host detail page.
Group tasks let permitted operators run patch jobs, scripts, service actions, and Ansible ping checks against group members with parallelism controls.
Task history tracks group task runs, per-host outcomes, live or completed task details, and selected-run deletion.

Read the operating guide in Host groups.

Networks

Network list lets operators create, edit, delete, and open CIDR-defined networks while seeing descriptions, host counts, installed-app coverage, and creation time.
Discovered networks show observed CIDRs from internal connection samples, with options to add a discovered CIDR as a known network or hide it.
Graph views show relationships between networks and member hosts across all networks or within one selected network.
Network detail lets operators review members, assignment type, IP addresses, status, installed apps, and add or remove hosts manually.
Automatic membership re-adds hosts when a heartbeat reports an IP address inside a defined network CIDR.

Read the network workflow in Host networks.