%FullProductName% Systems

Use this dialog to set discovery, presence check, and automatic security preferences for systems managed by the %ProductServerName%.

General
Auto-discover period (hours)
This setting controls how often the %ProductServerName% attempts to automatically discover other %ProductName% systems for management. This feature can be disabled (the default) or set to a period of between 1 hour and 168 hours (7 days).
Presence Check Period (minutes)
This setting controls how often the %ProductServerName% checks the status of each %ProductName% system it can manage. The presence check period determines how quickly the %ProductServerName% will detect that a system has gone offline (due to a problem, or being shutdown), or has come online. The automatic presence check can be disabled, or set to repeat every 1 to 240 minutes (4 hours). The default is 15 minutes.
Automatically secure unsecured systems
This setting instructs the %ProductServerName% to automatically secure any unsecured system that it has found and can manage. A secure system is a system that only allows servers that it trusts to manage it. Trust is established between a system and server when the system is installed with the public keys from a server, or when the keys are delivered while the system was still unsecured. An unsecured system can be managed by any server. When an unsecured system begins to be managed by a given server, it continues to trust that server, even when secured later by another server. When this setting is enabled, the %ProductServerName% will deliver its public keys to any system it finds, even if the system is secured by another server. The %ProductServerName% then secures the client, instructing it to not trust any server for which it does not already have public keys.
Auto-add unknown agents which contact server
Check this box to have the %ProductServerName% automatically add to the Group Contents pane unknown agents that contact the server. This process occurs after the discovery task is performed by the server. Unknown agents are those not previously discovered.

OK
Processes the information selected or entered in all of the individual pages and closes the Discovery Preferences dialog.
Cancel
Closes the Discovery Preferences dialog without processing any information.
Help
Displays this help information.