Symantec 10551441 - AntiVirus Corporate Edition Administrator's Manual page 23

Understanding Intense Discovery
Intense Discovery walks My Network Places on the local Windows 2000
computer or the Network Neighborhood on the local Windows NT computer,
and attempts to resolve all computers that it finds into a network address. Once
it has the network address, it attempts to send ping requests. You can configure
whether Intense Discovery walks the NetWare or Microsoft branches of the
network tree, or both.
From the Symantec System Center console, you can select any node beneath the
console root, and then choose Discovery Service from the Tools menu to
perform a new discovery of servers.
Following an Intense Discovery, the following Discovery types run:
Local Discovery
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Load from cache only
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Normal Discovery
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See "Normal Discovery"
Note: The ability of Intense Discovery to locate computers is limited by several
factors: the availability of a WINS server or Active Directory, network subnet
and router configuration, DNS configuration, and Microsoft domain and
workgroup configuration. Searching by IP address range in most cases is not
affected by these factors. For this reason, you may want to use IP Discovery.
Understanding IP Discovery
IP Discovery provides discovery by either IP address range or IP subnet range.
You may want to run IP Discovery only periodically. It can be used to discover
computers across the network.
Once the computers are in the address cache, you can then rely on the Load from
cache only method.
Running the Discovery Service
You manually run all forms of Discovery directly from the Symantec System
Center console.
Managing with the Symantec System Center
on page 21.
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