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