Resources are the agents and servers running on your network. Before you can begin to apply policies, elevate or reduce privileges, you must discover all of the resources (agents and servers) that you have to work with.
Regardless of the Agent Discoverer,
Arellia optimizes the resource discovery process by discovering for both agents and servers. Arellia discovers agent file details once , and then using uses hashes afterwards ( to ensure that each agent doesn't have to keep sending file details to the server). For Server Discoverers, Arellia optimizes the resource discovery process by storing known platform configurations, so regardless of the server discoverer, it has the ability to . The server discovery process stores known platform configurations and can instantly recognize server details , so it information doesn't have to gather the information be gathered from each server resource.
To Configure Resource Discovery
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, do the following steps:
- In the Arellia Security Management console go to click the Configuration tab.
- Navigate to Settings / > Configuration / > Resource Discovery.
- For agent discovery, select In the Resource Discovery Agents folder, choose an agent discovery resource.For
- In the Server Discoverer folder, choose a server discovery , select Server Discoverersresource.