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Discovery Service Operation

Discovery Server (DS) is implemented as a Windows service. As soon as DS is started, it enumerates the list of products in order to create a behavior mask. Based on this mask, DS initializes the required components.

• The Listen/Serialize component is initialized first and starts listening on a particular port (or Mailslot) for incoming packets (messages) from other Discovery Servers. When a message is received, DS writes data (if any) into the repository (registry, for example) and then notifies the Query/Advertise component.
• The Query/Advertise component sends the message received from the Listen/Serialize component, (prepared with the product's list) directly to the Discovery Server, which has requested the data. Query/Advertise can also send messages as a broadcast message to the selected network targets (the list of IP Subnets or Windows Domains) if it is scheduled or initiated manually. It does this in order to query other Discovery Servers across the network, and advertise its own list of Arcserve Backup products.

More information:

IP Subnets and Windows Domains Discovery

Discovery Configuration Overview

When to use Discover Now