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SERVER OVERVIEW
Overview
The server overview window is used to view your server’s status, add/delete servers
manually, and edit server properties such as its port number, password, or license.
There are two types of FRP servers:
• Management servers.
• Replication Servers
A management server manages replication servers and replication jobs. The management
console enables the adding and editing of replication servers and managing replication jobs.
All replication servers that are associated with a specific management server are part of that
management server’s management group.
A replication server is a server that is configured to perform FRP replication jobs.
FRP recognizes two categories of replication servers:
• Fully-Accessible Servers
• Partially-Accessible Servers.
Local Servers
These servers include all auto-detected replication servers on the management servers LAN,
and any manually added replication servers on a WAN that has two-way connectivity over
port 9100 (or user defined) to the management server.
Remote Servers
These servers include replication servers that are a part of another management group and
that have sufficient connectivity to allow for replication with Fully-Accessible Servers. These
replication servers do not have two-way connectivity to the management server and are
typically on another LAN.
FRP uses Auto-Detection to locate and display all FRP replication servers that are on the
same LAN as the management server, and support UDP. The management server broadcasts
UDP packets over the LAN, and any replication server that can hear them responds. UDP is a
standard part of every network. It will be present unless it has been intentionally disabled.
The management server then creates a list of detected replication servers which are displayed
on the Server Overview screen. The auto-detect procedure is performed frequently to
maintain system accuracy.
Viewing Servers
The Server Overview screen displays all servers that have been automatically discovered by
the FRP management server, or manually added to the management group. These servers are
listed on the Server Overview screen (Figure 14).
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