Adding Windows proxies to the appliance enables the appliance to use them for discovering Windows devices.
The appliance and the Windows proxies run CORBA services to communicate using SSL with one another. See Introduction to Discovery for more information.

After installing the Windows proxies on the appliance, you must do the following:

1. Add Windows proxy pools. For more information, see Adding a Windows proxy pool.
2. Add the proxies to the proxy pools. For more information, see Adding Windows proxies to proxy pools.

Adding a Windows proxy pool

Adding Windows proxy pools enables the appliance to organize sets of Windows proxies together and balance the proxy load for discovery tasks.

To add a Windows proxy pool, perform the following steps:

1. From the secondary navigation bar on the Discovery tab, click Credentials.
2. Click Windows Proxies.
3. Click Add.
4. Enter the following information about the new Windows proxy pool:
   

   Name	The name that the Windows proxy pool will be referred to in the user interface. This name must be unique. The system validates it to be unique.
   IP Range	The IP addresses that the Windows proxy pool can scan. The acceptable values could be any one of the following: IP address: for example, 10.10.10.3 Range of IP addresses: for example, 10.10.10.* or 10.10.1-5.* or 10.10.10.0/24 Regular expression: for example, .* or 10.10.10.(23|25)
   Type	Select the type of the Windows proxy pool. A Windows proxy pool can contain only one type of Windows proxy. The available types are: Windows Active Directory Proxies Windows Credential Proxies Windows Workgroup Proxies
   Domains	The domain or a space-separated list of domains that the Windows proxy pool will discover. This specifies that the pool is preferred for the discovery of these domains.

5. Click Apply.
   The Windows proxy pool is added to the appliance.

You can add multiple Windows proxy pools to the appliance. The Windows proxy pools are displayed in the order (from top to bottom) in which you have added them to the appliance.

Adding Windows proxies to proxy pools

Adding Windows proxies to the proxy pools enables the appliance to organize sets of Windows proxies together and balance the proxy load for discovery tasks.

To add a Windows proxy to a Windows proxy pool, perform the following steps:

1. From the secondary navigation bar on the Discovery tab, click Credentials.
2. Click Windows Proxies.
3. Click the Actions list for the corresponding Windows proxy pool.
4. Select Add Windows Proxy.

   You can add one type of Windows proxy only to a proxy pool of the same type. For example, you can add a credential Windows proxy only to a credential Windows proxy pool.

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5. Enter the following information about the new Windows proxy:
   

   Proxy pool	Select the Windows proxy pool from the list.
   Name	Enter the name that the Windows proxy will be referred to in the user interface. This name must be unique. The system validates this name to be unique.
   IP Address	The IP address of the Windows proxy.
   Port	The port on which to communicate with the Windows proxy. For AD Windows proxy, the default port number is 4321. For Workgroup Windows proxy, the default port number is 4322. For credential Windows proxy, the default port number is 4323.
   Enabled	To enable the Windows proxy, select the check box.

6. Click Apply.
   The Windows proxy management window displays the new Windows proxy in the corresponding pool.

Each proxy pool displays the Windows proxies in rows. For discovery tasks, the Windows proxy pool checks for a Windows proxy. If a proxy has not previously been used to discover the endpoint, then for each proxy pool (matching the domain) in the order that the pools appear:

• a proxy is selected, and discovery attempts to contact it
  • if successful then that proxy is used.
  • if unsuccessful due to a timeout, then other proxies in the pool are tried.
  • if unsuccessful due to an error, then no more proxies in the pool are tried and the remaining pools are tried in the order in which they appear.