Configuring a Bonjour Discovery Policy

About this task

The Bonjour discovery policy configures how Bonjour services are located. It configures the VLANs on which these services can be found.

To display Bonjour discovery policy information:

Procedure

  1. Select Configuration.
  2. Select Services.
  3. Select Bonjour Gateway to expand its submenu.
  4. Select Discovery Policy.
    The Discovery Policy screen displays the name of the configured Bonjour discovery policies.
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    Bonjour Gateway - Discovery Policy Screen
  5. Select an existing policy and select Edit to modify its configuration or select Add to create a new configuration..

    Optionally, Rename a policy or Copy a policy to a different location.

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    Bonjour - Discovery Policy - Add/Edit Policy Screen
  6. Select the + Add Row button to add a rule to the Bonjour discovery policy.
    These are the services discoverable by the Bonjour gateway.
  7. Set the following discovery attributes for the discovery policy configuration:
    Service Name Define the service that can be discovered by the Bonjour gateway.
    • Predefined – Use the drop-down menu to select from a list of predefined Apple services (Scanner, Printer, HomeSharing etc.).
    • Alias – Use an existing alias to define a service that is not available in the predefined list.
    VLAN Type Use the drop-down menu to select the VLAN type.
    • local – The VLAN(s) defined in the Service VLAN field use a local bridging mode.
    • tunneled – The VLAN(s) defined in the Service VLAN field are shared tunnel VLANs.
    Service VLANs Provide a VLAN or a list of VLANs on which the selected service is discoverable.
    Instance Name Optionally, specify the selected Bonjour service‘s instance name. When specified, the Bonjour service discovery queries contain the instance name. of the service to be discovered. You can either directly specify the string value to be used as a match criteria, or use a string alias (for example, $BONJOURSTRING) to identify the string to match. If using a string alias, ensure that it is existing and configured. For information on configuring a string alias, see Network Basic Alias Configuration.

    This option is useful especially in large distributed, enterprise networks. Use it to create different instances of a Bonjour service for the different organizations or departments (VLANS) within your network. Creating instances allows you to advertise specific service instances for a specific set of VLANs, instead of advertising top-level Bonjour Services to various allocated VLAN(s).

  8. Click OK to save updates to this Bonjour Discovery policy.
    Click Reset to revert the screen to its last saved configuration.