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.

• 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. You can expand the More Options section to configure the following settings.
• Domain—If you are working in a domain environment, specify the Domain.

• Double-Take proxy server—If you will be creating a full server to ESX appliance job, and your source is a Linux server, specify the name or IP address of your virtual recovery appliance. Your Linux source is now considered a proxied server.

  You may also want to insert your Windows source servers as proxied servers, depending on your network configuration. If your environment is configured so that your Windows source servers can only communicate with your virtual recovery appliance, but not directly with your Double-Take Console, then you need to insert your Windows source servers as proxied servers. If your Double-Take Console can communicate with your Windows source servers, you can insert the servers as proxied servers or as non-proxied servers.

• Protocol—Specify the protocol type that the console will use to communicate with the server.
• Automatically detect protocol—Double-Take 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 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.
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 Manage 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.

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.