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How to get here in the Web Console?
In the top menu, select: "Settings-> Advanced Options". In the Advanced Options page click on the Discovery Configuration Icon on the left hand side.
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This page is meant for configuring the automatic discovery feature in . “Discovery” is done to discover other peers in the subnet and also to check the status of other peers. The following are the types of discovery done and you can enable/disable them and also change the time interval for each type of discovery. Note that will discover other peers only within a subnet. You will have to manually add peers in other subnets from the menu item "Settings->Add Peer".
Multicast Discovery - uses the multicast ports 6363 and 6364 to send and receive multicast requests to discover other peers within the subnet. This is one of the fastest ways of discovering other peers provided multicasting works inside the subnet. This discovery is done every minute, by default. You can disable/enable this discovery or change the time interval as required.
TCP Discovery - This is a more comprehensive discovery mechanism where shares peer information between each other. This sharing is done only within ‘already discovered’ peers. Hence, no scanning of invalid IP addresses is done. This discovery cannot be disabled and by default it is run every 5 minutes. You can change the time interval of this discovery to a maximum time interval of 60 minutes.
UDP Network Scanning - This scans for the UDP port 32006 inside the subnet to detect the presence of any peer. This is done every minute by default. You can enable/disable this discovery or change the time interval as required. By default, UDP Network Scanning is disabled in .
TCP Network Scanning - This scans for the TCP port 32005 inside the subnet to detect the presence of any peer inside the subnet. This is done every 5 minutes, by default. Note that before a TCP port scan is done, actually does an ICMP ping to collect valid IP addresses. You can enable/disable this discovery or change the time interval from this user interface. By default TCP Network Scanning is disabled in .
NOTE :
- If a peer is not discovered automatically, you can add it manually from the Add Peer page. will discover peers only within a subnet. Peers outside the subnet have to be added manually. The manually added peer will show up only in the web console of the peer which added it.
- You can delete any peer from the Delete Peer page. The delete will take effect only in the web console of the peer that deleted the peer.
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