Administering the Backup Server › Discovery Configuration

Discovery Configuration

Discovery Configuration in a service that you can use to periodically discover computers in your network for newly added or upgraded CA ARCserve Backup software. A Discovery server runs as a background process that collects information from all other Discovery servers installed with CA products across the corporate network.

Discovery Configuration allows you to distribute discovered network target information to remote servers. This capability allows administrators to decrease network traffic load created by Discovery servers to discover Windows domains or IP subnet addresses.

The Discovery Configuration allows you to perform the following tasks:

• Start or stop the discovery service
• Distribute tables with discovered network targets
• Add, remove or modify information in any of the three tables created by Discovery Configuration (IP subnets, IP subnet masks, and Windows domains)
• Set or modify Discovery Configuration parameters

You can open the Discovery Configuration at the command line or from Windows Explorer:

• Command line--Start dsconfig.exe from the following directory:

  C:\Program Files\CA\SharedComponents\ARCserve Backup\CADS
  

• Windows Explorer--Double-click dsconfig.exe located in the CA ARCserve Backup Shared Components directory. For example:

  C:\Program Files\CA\SharedComponents\ARCserve Backup\CADS
  

Note: See the online help for procedures on how to start or stop the service or distribute tables with discovered network targets.