Connect Recording Servers Using Autodiscovery
When you have installed and initialized your recording servers, it is possible to connect them to your central server and conduct all the configuration of the recording servers through the central server.
In addition to the manual recording server setup and recording server discovery via Setup Wizard, it is possible to launch recording server autodiscovery from the central server at any time. It is convenient to use the autodiscovery feature if the number of recording servers within the system is large, and it also helps track connectivity issues at early configuration stages.
Before launching the automatic discovery process, please bring online all Macula servers to be discovered at this stage and make sure they are reachable from the central server machine. Note that autodiscovery can be only conducted from the central server; you can be logged into the central server via Macula Console from any machine, provided that system configuration allows it.
In order to launch the recording server autodiscovery via Macula Console, open the Configuration section, click Servers in the menu on the left, then click the little arrow next to the + New server button and choose Find servers.
Server autodiscovery dialog box will then pop up, with the recording server scanning process launched automatically. As the process goes on, discovered servers will appear in the Found servers list and become available for setup at once. Note that only recording servers that have not been configured will be discovered; if a recording server has already been configured from the current of from any other central server, the scanner will not detect such a server.
You can click the Stop button in the upper-right-hand corner in order to terminate the scanning process if you think that enough servers have been found so far. You can press the Start server search button at any time to restart the autodiscovery process; note that all changes made to the servers' settings will be then discarded.
When the autodiscovery process is finished, click your desired server in the list on the right, then adjust server settings and click Apply for the changes to take effect. Use the Reset button to load the default settings. The table below details the available settings.
Title
A user-defined name for the target recording server
<IP>:<port>
Connections
Networks via which the target server has been reached (discovered), unchangeable
<IP>:<port>
Failover Node
Select this option if you want to make the target server a failover node; deselect if the target server is planned to act as a primary recording server
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Failover Cluster
Choose a pre-configured failover cluster you want the target server to be a member of
none
When you have finished setting up the discovered servers, review the list of detected servers: use the checkboxes next to each server in the list to select/deselect it; deselected items will not be added to the central server configuration.
Then, click the Add selected servers button in the bottom right corner to close the dialog box; all the servers you have selected in the previous dialog box will appear in your server list.
The buttons on the upper panel offer the following possibilities:
Edit: open the dialog box to change server settings (the dialog box will differ from the autodiscovery settings dialog box, offering advanced settings such as user permissions and membership)
Assign group: select server group from the list and make the target server a member of it
Delete: remove selected server(s)
X: deselect all
Double-clicking the selected server in the list will bring up the server settings' dialog box for editing.
The filter panel at the bottom enables you to view recently added/updated items, as well as other relevant filters. The filter that is currently active is highlighted blue: click the N filtered button to reset all filters and display all the available items again.
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