Adding New Servers to a Farm

When adding new servers into your current GridLink farm, you should follow the same guidelines regarding permissions and user rights set up, AXIS library installation and AXIS installation as installing GridLink on a new farm. However, you don't need to change the farm settings in this case because they have been done previously and will be applied to new servers automatically.

Also, you don't need to suspend the farm when adding new servers. If there's job currently running on the farm, the new servers can be picked up automatically.

1. Run GridLink Utility. In the "Log on" dialog, type the name of one of the servers with GridLink licence in the Profile Host Name edit box. Enter the correct password and click on "OK".

The utility should list all existing servers in the current farm.

2. Select menu "Farm Profile - Add server to farm", type a new server name in "Server name" editor, click "OK".

3. Repeat step 2 to add all new servers.

4. Now you can remotely install GridLink service on the new servers from a central location. Please note that you need to have the administrator's right on all new servers.

Right-click on each new server, select "Service - Install" from the right-click menu and :

• When the utility asks you if you want to unblock the controller from Windows Firewall, answer "Yes".
• specify the installation path, and a user account under which the service will be run.