About this task
The Site Discovery feature automatically inserts objects and attributes uploaded from an online site to your SCT archive database. You can select the Site Discovery feature after you create a new, empty archive, and use the Insert Site wizard to create a new site. For more information, see Creating a New Archive Database. To use the Site Discover feature on an existing site, in the All Items tree, right-click the site name, then click Site Discovery.
Note:
- To ensure the efficiency of the process, .caf files from field controllers are not uploaded during Site Discovery. Use the Include Field Controllers option when uploading a supervisory engine to upload the .caf files separately. See Upload.
- For SCT Release 10.0 or later, the site discovery process has changed. Site Directors at a release before 5.2 must be added to the archive at Release 5.2 for proper discovery. Site Directors after Release 5.2 must be defined at the same software version as the physical device. Version 5.2 and later devices discovered through Site Discovery are added to the archive as their physical device release version, regardless of the release version within the archive. Devices at a release before 5.2 are added as 5.2 devices. Existing Site Director devices must match the physical device, or the upload and discovery fail.
- For SCT Release 12.0 and later, users can select the Upload Discovered Devices check box to upload newly discovered devices with all objects, security, and certificates (Figure 1), or leave it unselected to add newly discovered devices without objects, security, and certificates (Figure 2).
Figure 1.
Completed Upload Discovered Devices - Check Box Selected
Figure 2.
Completed Upload Discovered Devices - Check Box Unselected
To perform a Site Discovery:
Procedure
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In the Site Discovery wizard, select the site.
Figure 3. Site Discovery Wizard - Destination Screen
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Click Next. The Site Discovery page appears.
Figure 4. Site Discovery Wizard - Site Discovery Screen