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Environment Module Overview
- 25 Nov 2024
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Environment Module Overview
- Updated on 25 Nov 2024
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The Environment Module manages Processing Jobs and Discovery Agents for the entire Discovery Manager environment. Processing Jobs are discrete actions created within a Discovery Manager project which has been sent to the Environment Module to be distributed to the Discovery Agents. The Environment Module can be accessed and utilized without having to open a Discovery Manager project.
The Discovery Agents are machines that are running the Discovery Agent application. The Discovery Agent application is a listening device that accepts batches of files from in progress Processing Jobs and processes those files for the most efficient handling of these batches.
In an On-Premises installation of Discovery Manager: To start the Discovery Agent, simply go to the machine running the Discovery Agent and double click on the Discovery Agent icon. When started, the Discovery Agent will first register within the environment and then start accepting batches of files for processing. Running Discovery Manager and the Discovery Agent at the same time on the same machine is not recommended.
In an AWS hosted installation of Discovery Manager, Discovery Agents spin up automatically to pick up jobs and are not managed by the client administrator.