UNAB and DC locator

Products

• CA Virtual Privilege Manager
• CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)
• CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM)

Issue/Introduction

Does UNAB use the DC locator service to discover the nearest AD domain controller ?

Environment

PIM 12.X and 14.X UNAB and PAM SC 14.X all versions

Resolution

Since it is a specific Windows service we can't use it as such, as UNAB is UNIX/Linux. Everything that is needed for UNAB operation is implemented independently from whatever is available on Windows

Additional Information

The following links describe the DC Locator service in detail:

https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/How-the-DC-locator-works-in-Active-Directory 
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/arnaud_jumelet/2010/07/11/domain-controller-locator-in-depth/