The Connection Broker adds desktops through a process called discovery, i.e., gathering available resources from external systems. The Connection Broker can discover:

• Microsoft® Windows® Terminal Services Servers and desktops using the Leostream Windows Agent
• Virtual desktops from the virtualization host or virtualization management system
• Physical machines registered in a Microsoft Active Directory® server

The external systems from which desktop are discovered are called centers.

This test auto-discovers all the centers on a Connection Broker, and reports the current status of each. Besides user-configured centers, the test also reports the status of an Uncategorized center; this center contains desktops running the Leostream Windows agents, which are not cataloged by another center. The Uncategorized center allows you to:

• Add physical machines without creating an Active Directory center
• Add a virtual machine that is not part of VitualCenter

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the CBVCTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• By default, SSL flag is set to No, indicating that by default, the test connects to the Connection Broker via HTTP. If the Connection Broker is SSL-enabled, then set this flag to Yes.

• To enable the test to log into the Connection Broker and extract statistics of interest from it, specify the login name of a user in the USER textbox on the Connection Broker who is assigned the Administrator role. If need be, you can even create a special Administrator user on the Connection Broker for this purpose, and pass the credentials of that user to the test.

• Specify the password of the USER in the PASSWORD textbox.

• Confirm the PASSWORD by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD .

• In the TIMEOUT textbox specify the duration (in seconds) within which the test should timeout. The default duration is 30 seconds.

• Once the necessary value has been been provided, click on the Update button to register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with "$" indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to "xyz" and $port will be changed to "80" when configuring a test.