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Understanding Discovery Service The discovery service broadcasts and retrieves all the information of the local subnet machines as well as manually-defined subnets and manually-defined machines. To add a machine name (IP address) manually, start Discovery and click the Add button on the Windows Domain tab. Enter the IP address of the machine and click OK. The discovery service can then ping, publish, and return a product list from the specified machine. Note: You can limit the discovery range by disabling any auto-discovered machine or Windows domain, which can reduce network traffic. Check the Disable box for an existing machine or Windows domain. To add a remote subnet, start Discovery and click the Add button on the Subnet tab. The Add a Subnet dialog opens as shown in the following example: Enter the Subnet and Subnet Mask and click OK. This enables the discovery service publish its product list to each machine to the specific subnet and also return product information for every machine in this subnet. Note: You can limit the discovery range by disabling any auto-discovered machine or Windows domain, which can reduce network traffic. Check the Disable box for an existing machine or Windows domain. If specific subnets use a different subnet mask you can add a subnet mask manually by starting Discovery and clicking the Add button on the Subnet Mask tab. The Add a Subnet Mask dialog opens as shown in the following example: Administering the Backup Server 9-27