Adding servers

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 to be added to the console.

  If you will be protecting files and folders, to best prepare for a potential failover, restore, and failback scenario, you may want to use a source server that has been inserted into the console by a private IP address. In this scenario, your source must have at least two IP addresses, one for public communication and one for private. If you insert your source in the console using the private IP address, then that private IP address can more easily be used after a failure to restore the data that changed during failover from the target back to the source.

   

• User name—Specify a user that is a member of the Double-Take Admin or Double-Take Monitors security group on the server.
• Password—Specify the password associated with the User name you entered.
4. If necessary, specify the domain or protocol under More Options.
• Domain—If you are working in a domain environment, specify the Domain.
• Protocol—Specify the protocol type that the console will use to communicate with the server.
• Automatically detect protocol—Double-Take Availability will check the server to determine the protocol type to use.
• XML web services protocol—Select this option to use XML web services as your protocol. Select this option if your server is running Double-Take Availability version 5.2 or later.
• Legacy protocol—Select this option to use the legacy proprietary Double-Take protocol. Select this option if your server is running Double-Take version 5.1 or earlier.
5. After you have specified the server information, click Add.
6. Repeat steps 3 through 5 for any other servers you want to add.
7. 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.
8. When your list of Servers to be added is complete, click OK.

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 Availability.
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.

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. 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. Locate the console configuration file saved from the other machine and click Open.