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There are several ways to control the activities of the ESI Server scanner, including indicating what machines to scan (wildcard domain and host name matching), what types of machines to scan (servers only, SQL Servers only), depth of collection, how to generate SQL Server instances (e.g., by including or not including the host name), and so forth. The parameters are specified when the WDA task is created, in Step 2 below.
The parameters must be specified on one line in the task parameter input (see Settings under Tasks). For example:
%.% /sqlInstancesOnly:y /serversOnly:n /fullCollect:y /useHostName:y /useNetDrive:Q
The above parameters will cause the ESI Server Scanner to fully scan every machine in every domain it can access returning information only if a SQL Server instance is found on that machine. It also includes both servers and non-servers (e.g., it will look for SQL Server installations on workstations as well). The host name is used to generate SQL Server instance name aliases (see below), and network drive Q: is used (ESI Server Scanner requires a network drive on the local machine in order to access file information on the remote machine it is scanning).
The parameters are as follows:
Parameter |
Description |
Network Path Wildcard |
Indicates what machine(s) to scan. See below. |
/sqlInstancesOnly: |
Indicates whether information should be returned to the MIE only if the scanner finds a SQL Server instance on the machine. /sqlInstancesOnly:y indicates yes /sqlInstancesOnly:n indicates no If yes is indicated, no information will be returned to the MIE if a SQL Server instance is not discovered. |
/serversOnly: |
Indicates whether information should only be returned to the MIE if the machine is a server. /serversOnly:y indicates yes /serversOnly:n indicates no If yes is indicated, servers are the only type of machine for which the server scanner will return information. |
/fullCollect: |
Indicates whether the information returned to the MIE should be the result of a full scan. /fullCollect:y indicates yes /fullCollect:n indicates no If yes is indicated, a full scan for discovery information is performed by the Server Scanner. This includes several sources, as is the case with ESI Scanner, the agent-based scanner. If no is indicated for fullCollect, then the only discovery information that is sent back is the generated SQL Server instance names. |
/useHostName: |
Indicates whether the host name of the scanned computer should be included in the generated SQL Server instance names returned to the MIE. /useHostName:y indicates yes /useHostName:n indicates no If yes is indicated, the Server Scanner includes the name of the machine in the generated SQL Server Instance Names that are sent back as software aliases to the MIE. For more information, see below. |
/useNetworkDrive: |
Indicates what network drive the Server Scanner is allowed to use when it needs to remotely access the files of the machine it is scanning. Note that this network drive is created and mapped on the machine that is running the scanner. No network drives are created on the machine being scanned. For example, the following setting indicates that drive Q: can be used by the Server Scanner when it needs to map a network drive: / useNetworkDrive:Q |