Identifying and Contacting the Client’s Assigned Site

There are four general ways for the client to determine the site to which it is assigned and locate a management point for that site:

• Depending on the installation method used, the site code and initial management point may have been supplied as command-line arguments. The management point may be specified using an IP address, a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), or a simple name.

• Clients that are members of AD domains can retrieve this information by querying AD, provided the site publishes data to the client’s AD forest.

• If the required information is not available in AD, you can configure DNS to provide management point information to clients. DNS does not support automatic site ...

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