Overview of Manage Services

Manage Services consists of a master server (normally the Portal server) and multiple slave servers, which are all other servers running Discover software, with the exception of Network Capture. The Manage Services master server communicates configuration information to the appropriate slave servers. Each slave then updates the appropriate configuration file or registry.

Changes can be made from the Portal and scheduled for later updating on the relevant computers. Additionally, configuration settings can be defined as common to multiple servers, reducing the overall workload with multiple server systems.

Each of these Manage Services updates is called a job, which can be created, scheduled, rescheduled, and canceled through the Portal interface. Each job contains one or more tasks. A task implements the configuration changes, which allows for a set of related changes to be made at one time.

For more information on configuring the master Manage Services server, see Configuring the Manage Services Server.