Best Practices For Cds Management - Black Box Coalesce WC-COA-I User Manual

Coalesce Directory Service (CDS) User Guide

3. Best Practices for CDS Management

• Make sure CDS is needed for your installation. See "Why would I use CDS?" in this guide.
• Install the CDS on a machine that is connected to your network. Ideally, this will be installed on a machine such as a domain
controller that has IP routes to all of the subnets that have Coalesce displays and Coalesce clients on them. Good examples are
the workstations already being used to manage your network.
• Once CDS is installed and displays are configured, users should connect to one of your displays by launching their clients from a
browser. This will set their CDS IP address according to the setting you've configured on the display. This is now their "home"
network for CDS.
• In small/medium businesses, CDS may not be needed. First try using Coalesce broadcast discovery. If CDS is needed, you can
enable it in conjunction with broadcast, and they will both operate to provide users with a list of available displays.
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