Installing a Secondary Site Using the SMS Administrator Console

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To install a secondary site from the primary site by using the SMS Administrator console, complete the following procedure.

To install a secondary site from the SMS Administrator console

  1. From the SMS Administrator console, navigate to your primary site:

    Where?

    Systems Management Server > Site Database (site code - site name) >Site Hierarchysite code - site name

  2. Right-click the <site code - site name> of your primary site, select New, and then click Secondary Site Creation Wizard.

  3. On the Welcome page, click Next.

  4. On the Site Identity page, enter the site code and site name that you chose for the secondary site server, add any optional comments, and then click Next.

  5. On the Site Server page, specify the domain and the name of the secondary site server. If necessary, change the installation folder and processor platform. The installation folder name must not include any spaces. Click Next.

    Caution

    • Ensure that you type the server name correctly. The Create Secondary Site Wizard does not verify that the server exists.

  6. On the Installation Source Files page, choose whether to send all the files that are required to set up a secondary site over your network from the primary site server to the secondary site server.

    • If you have sufficient network bandwidth during the installation, sending the files over the network is the easiest approach.

    • You can place the SMS 2003 product CD in the secondary site server computer and have the Secondary Site Creation Wizard load the necessary files from the product CD. This is the preferred method when you install SMS in low-bandwidth situations and when it is inconvenient to access the secondary site server remotely (installing a secondary site over RAS, for example).

    • Alternatively, you can use an SMS 2003 product CD image on the local disk or removable media or a mapped network connection at the secondary site server.

    Select the method you want to use, and then click Next.

  7. On the SMS Security Information page, choose your security mode:

    • If you choose standard security mode, proceed to step 8.

    • If you choose advanced security mode, proceed to step 9.

  8. On the SMS Service Account page, enter the user name and password of the account to be used as the SMS Service account for the secondary site. Ensure that this account already exists in the secondary site domain. If it does not exist, create it before continuing the installation. When you are finished, click Next.

  9. The Addresses to Secondary Site page appears. If you already have addresses configured for this site, select one. Alternatively, create one or more addresses to the new secondary site by clicking Yes, Create a new address, and then click Next.

  10. On the New Address to Parent Site page, select the sender address type that the secondary site will use when it contacts the parent site. Specify the destination site name, and then click Set to specify the account that you want the secondary site to use when it connects to the primary site. Click Next.

  11. On the Completing the Create Secondary Site Wizard page, review your choices. To change any selection or specification, double-click the item you want to change. Make the corrections, and then click Next until you return to the Completing the Create Secondary Site Wizard page. When you are ready to continue, click Finish.

After the secondary site has been installed and the site control file has been passed to the parent site, you can see the new secondary site displayed in the SMS Administrator console tree.

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