discover - Discovery mode configuration parameter

You can use this parameter to determine what kind of discovery requests, if any, the client can make.

Configuration type
Database manager
Applies to
  • Database server with local and remote clients
  • Client
  • Database server with local clients
  • Partitioned database server with local and remote clients
Parameter type
Configurable
Default [range]
SEARCH [DISABLE, KNOWN, SEARCH]

From a client perspective, one of the following occurs:

  • If you set discover to SEARCH, the client can issue search discovery requests to find Db2® server systems on the network. Search discovery provides a superset of the functionality provided by KNOWN discovery. If you set discover to SEARCH, both search and known discovery requests can be issued by the client.
  • If you set discover to KNOWN, only known discovery requests can be issued from the client. By specifying some connection information for the administration server on a particular system, all the instance and database information on the Db2 system is returned to the client.
  • If discover to DISABLE, discovery is disabled at the client.