Managing servers > Adding servers

Adding servers

The first time you start the console, the Servers page is empty. In order to protect and monitor your servers, you must insert your servers and/or appliances in the console.

ClosedInserting servers manually
  1. Select Get Started from the toolbar.
  2. Select Add servers and click Next.
  3. On the Manual Entry tab, specify the server information.

    • Server—This is the name or IP address of the server or appliance to be added to the console.

      If you enter the source server's fully-qualified domain name, the Double-Take Console will resolve the entry to the server short name. If that short name resides in two different domains, this could result in name resolution issues. In this case, enter the IP address of the server.

      If you are using a NAT environment, make sure you add your server to the Double-Take Console using the correct public or private IP address. The name or IP address you use to add a server to the console is dependent on where you are running the console. Specify the private IP address of any servers on the same side of the router as the console. Specify the public IP address of any servers on the other side of the router as the console.

       

    • User name—For a server, specify a user that is a member of the Double-Take Admin or Double-Take Monitors security group on the server.

      • If you are using domain credentials for your Double-Take servers and you change those credentials, you will continue to receive a Windows Security pop-up in the Double-Take Console, even if you enter correctly updated credentials in the pop-up. This is an unavoidable Windows WCF communication issue, and you must update the credentials for the Double-Take servers in the Double-Take Console Servers page in order to terminate the repeated pop-ups.

       

    • Password—Specify the password associated with the User name you entered.
    • Domain—If you are working in a domain environment, specify the Domain.
    • Management Service port—If you want to change the port used by the Double-Take Management Service, disable Use default port and specify the port number you want to use. This option is useful in a NAT environment where the console needs to be able to communicate with the server using a specific port number. Use the public or private port depending on where the console is running in relation to the server you are adding.
  4. After you have specified the server or appliance information, click Add.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for any other servers or appliances you want to add.
  6. If you need to remove servers or appliances from the list of Servers to be added, highlight a server and click Remove. You can also remove all of them with the Remove All button.

  7. When your list of Servers to be added is complete, click OK.

ClosedInserting servers through Active Directory discovery
  1. Select Get Started from the toolbar.
  2. Select Add servers and click Next.
  3. Select the Automatic Discovery tab.
  4. Click Discover to search Active Directory for servers running Double-Take.
  5. If you need to remove servers from the list of Servers to be added, highlight a server and click Remove. You can also remove all of them with the Remove All button.
  6. When your list of Servers to be added is complete, click OK.
  7. Because the Active Directory discovery uses pass-through authentication, you will need to update the credentials for each server from the Servers page, so that explicit credentials can be used when you go to create a job. Click Provide Credentials and provide credentials for a user that has privileges to that server and is a member of the Double-Take Admin security group.
ClosedImporting and exporting servers from a server and group configuration file

You can share the console server and group configuration between machines that have the Double-Take Console installed. The console server configuration includes the server group configuration, server name, server communications ports, and other internal processing information.

To export a server and group configuration file, select File, Export Servers. Specify a file name and click Save. After the configuration file is exported, you can import it to another console.

When you are importing a console server and group configuration file from another console, you will not lose or overwrite any servers that already exist in the console. For example, if you have server alpha in your console and you insert a server configuration file that contains servers alpha and beta, only the server beta will be inserted. Existing group names will not be merged, so you may see duplicate server groups that you will have to manually update as desired.

To import a server and group configuration file, select File, Import Servers. Locate the console configuration file saved from the other machine and click Open.