Configuration Manager Discovery Types
Knowing the available resources in a network is one of the benefits of having a configuration management system. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager uses a variety of discovery methods to gather resource information. Here are the seven types of discovery methods:
• Active Directory Forest
• Active Directory Security Group
• Active Directory System
• Active Directory System Group
• Active Directory User
• Heartbeat
• Network
The Active Directory Forest Discovery method is new with this release and discovers trusted forests, AD sites, and Internet Protocol (IP) subnets. In addition, this discovery method can automatically create AD site boundaries as well as IP subnet boundaries as they are discovered. ...
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