System Center Configuration Manager have different discovery methods to gather information about your IT infrastructure. Each of the discovery methods gathers information about different objects.
Active Directory Forest Discovery
This methods discovers Active Directory Sites and subnets.
By default only Heartbeat Discovery is enabled.
- Launch the Console, select Administration
- Expand the Hierarchy Configuration, select Discovery Methods.
- Double click on Active Directory Forest Discovery
Check all the boxes, OK
Active Directory Group Discovery
This methods discover the groups (local, global, universal security groups) from the defined location in the Active Directory.
- Double click on Active Directory Group Discovery
- Check the box Enable Active Directory Group Discovery
- Click on Add and click on Location.
Give the location a name and browser to a location you want to discover.
- trainingLAB.local
Active Directory System Discovery
This methods discover the computers in your organization from a specified locations in Active Directory Domain Services.
- Double click on Active Directory System Discovery
- Check the box Enable Active Directory System Discovery
- Click on the orange color icon to add the Active Directory containers.
Browser a to a location you want to discover systems in.
Active Directory User Discovery
This methods discovers the users accounts from your Active Directory domain.
- Double click on Active Directory User Discovery
- Check the box Enable Active Directory User Discovery
- Click on the orange color icon to add the Active Directory containers.
Browser to a location you want to discover users accounts in
Network Discovery
The Network Discovery searches your network infrastructure for network devices that have an IP address. It can search the domains, SNMP devices and DHCP servers to find the resources. It also discovers devices that might not be found by other discovery methods. This includes printers, routers, and bridges. In this post we will not configure the Network Discovery method as its not required here.
Boundaries
A boundary is a network location on the intranet that can contain one or more devices that you want to manage. Boundaries can be an IP subnet, Active Directory site name, IPv6 Prefix, or an IP address range, and the hierarchy can include any combination of these boundary types. To use a boundary, you must add the boundary to one or more boundary groups. Boundary groups are collections of boundaries. By using boundary groups, clients on the intranet can find an assigned site and locate content when they have to install software, such as applications, software updates, and operating system images.
Since we have run the Active Directory Forest Discovery method we need not create a boundary here, we will create a Boundary Group. Now we need to add the Boundary to the Boundary groups. In the Configuration Manager console, select Boundary Groups, right click and click on create a boundary group. Provide a name to the boundary group and click on Add.
On the Add Boundaries window select the boundary, in our case there is only one discovered boundary and that is the Default-First-Site-Name. Click on Apply.
Click on References tab, check Use this Boundary group for site assignment. To add the site system servers, click Add and select the Site System Server. Click on OK.
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