Probe Deployment

Discovery > Domains > Domain Watch > Probe Deployment tab

The Probe Deployment tab configures the probe agent for a selected domain. All domain computers with a Kaseya agent installed on them display in the lower panel.

Discovery communicates with an Active Directory domain using a probe agent. The probe uses the industry standard LDAP protocol to safely and securely communicate with the domain. Each probe agent must be a member of the domain it monitors. Probe deployment installs the extra functionality an agent requires to act as a probe.

Initially you may only see a single domain computer with a Kaseya agent installed on it displayed in the lower pane. As agents are automatically installed on other domain computers using Discovery policies, these domain computers will all be displayed in the lower pane.

For more information see:

• Configuring Probe Deployment.

Lower Panel

Header Fields

• Probe Status

- Un-installed - A probe is not installed for this domain.

- Processing - The probe executing a user request.

- Installed - The probe is installed and harvesting has been completed.

- Activated - The probe is monitoring the domain. Discovery policies are not modified.

- Activated - The probe is monitoring the domain. Discovery policies are modified but have not yet been applied.

- Activated - The probe is monitoring the domain. Discovery policies are modified and applied.

- Activated - The probe is monitoring the domain. Discovery policies have been modified but not yet been applied for at least three synchronization intervals. The Discovery administrator may have forgotten to apply the modified policies.

- Attention or Offline - The probe has encountered a problem that may require user attention. Because the probe's attention status may self-correct, the attention status does not necessarily correspond to a warning alert or error alert. If offline, the domain machine is unavailable.

Note: Discovery pages are not auto-refreshed. Click the Refresh button to ensure the latest Probe Status displays.

• Domain Name - The name of the Active Directory domain.
• Administrator User Name - The administrator name of the credential used to log into the Active Directory domain.

Actions

• Install - Installs the probe. After the install, the association with the organization cannot be changed without uninstalling the probe and detaching the probe. This prevents creating duplicate users, staff and computer records in multiple organizations.
  • Domain Name - The probe machine is a member of this domain.
  • Administrator User Name - The probe machine uses this administrator username to access the domain controller.
  • Administrator Password / Confirm Password - The administrator password.

    Note: Discovery passwords cannot contain quotation marks (").

  • Filter String - Filters the scan performed by the probe machine. Useful for large domains. Use distinguished name notation. For example, CN=Users,DC=myDomain,DC=com
  • VSA Organization - The VSA organization associated with the selected domain.
• Uninstall - Uninstalls the probe.

  Note: Before uninstalling the Discovery module from the VSA be sure to deactivate and detach the organization, then uninstall the probe agent.

Activation and Deactivation buttons only display if the Directory Services Feature Set is installed.

• Activate - Enables incremental discovery and synchronization of domain controller data. Activating a probe on a domain computer deactivates any other probe on that same domain, without loss of data.

  Note: Activation is not required to run full sync on the Domain Watch > Schedule and Status tab.

• Deactivate - Disables incremental synchronization updates from the domain. If reactivation occurs later, a "changes gap" may exist in the data collected by the probe, requiring the scheduling of a full synchronization to correct.
• Uninstall and Detach Org - Uninstalls the probe and detaches the organization. This may be necessary if the wrong organization was selected for the domain initially. See Uninstalling the Probe and Detaching the Org for issues to consider before uninstalling a probe.

Column Headings

• Domain Name - The name of the Active Directory domain.
• Machine.Group ID - The machine ID.groupID.orgID of the machine in the VSA.
• DNS Computer Name - The fully qualified domain name of the computer.
• Computer Name - The local host name of the computer.
• Agent Guid - A unique identifier for a machine ID.group ID account and its corresponding agent.
• IP Address - The IP address of the computer.
• Domain GUID - The unique GUID identifying this domain in Discovery.
• Host Type - Domain Server or Domain Member.
• Status - The probe status of the machine.
• Last Agent Check-in - The last time the agent for this machine is checked in.
• Organization - The VSA organization this computer is a member of.