3.0 Server Discovery and Multicasting

The Cloud Manager Orchestration Server, the Orchestration Agent, and other Orchestration tools use IP multicast messages to locate servers and to announce when servers are started or shut down. If multicasting is not supported in your existing network environment, all Orchestration components allow a specific machine to be specified instead of using multicast discovery. Multicast support is not required to run the Orchestration Server, the Orchestration Agent, or any Orchestration tools.

This section includes the following multicast information: