Patent ID: 8719385

Claim:
A method for site controller discovery and import comprising the following computer implemented features: connecting a user interface to a supervisor data server; navigating to an enterprise site controllers node in a site navigation tree; providing a plurality of options for selecting an approach to import a site controller, where the plurality of options comprises: a site controller auto discovery background service automatically detecting site controllers not in the supervisor data server and automatically importing the detected site controller(s), a first menu option for an import of a single site controller into the supervisor data server by a user entering location information for the single site controller, and a second menu option for a user invoked auto discovery service automatically searching local network to detect site controllers that have enterprise ID but are not in the supervisor data server in response to selection of the second menu option and importing newly discovered site controllers selected by the user, where the first menu option and the second menu option are alternative options; selecting an approach to import a site controller configuration; and executing the approach to import the site controller configuration.