RC-E User Manual
OnSSI Federated Architecture
Connecting to Another Site in the Hierarchy
You can connect to all sites in your federated architecture if your administrator settings are correct.
Prerequisites
To connect from one site in your hierarchy to another, one of the following two scenarios must be true:
The management server is installed as a
Network Service:
Both computers involved must be added as users to
each other's RC-E administrator role. See Assign and Remove Users and Groups to/from Roles (on page 149).
The management server is installed as a
user account:
This user account must be a member of the
administrator group of the server being linked to.
See Administrator Role and Federated Sites section (see "The Administrator Role and Federated Sites" on page 174).
To Connect to Another Site in Hierarchy
Simply click the wanted site in the Federated Site Hierarchy pane (see "Panes Overview" on page 36). A brief dialog
informs you that you are being connected to the new site. When connection is complete, your view in the
Federated
Sites Hierarchy
pane will change to reflect that you are connected to a different site.
Do I log out of my home-site when I connect to another site in the hierarchy?
Both yes and no. Embedded in
your home-site log-in is an automated and seamless log-in to its children as well, using the same credentials as your
home-site log-in. However, even though you technically log out of your home-site when connecting to one of its
children, you still see the world as your (former) home-site sees it.
Detaching a Site from the Hierarchy
Detaching/Removing a site from its hierarchy involves two different results
depending on where in the federated
architecture you are located
.
If you are within your hierarchy-except your home-site-this will detach the selected site from the rest of the hierarchy.
You will no longer be able to see the detached site.
If, on the other hand, you are located at your home-site, your home site will be detached from the rest of the hierarchy
including any sites located under your home-site. Your home-site becomes the new top-site.
Detach Child from Hierarchy(Location: Any site)
Prerequisites
The site you are detaching is any site,
except
your home-site.
To Detach Child from a Hierarchy
1. In the Management Client window, in the Federated Sites Hierarchy pane (see "Panes Overview" on
page 36), right-click the site you want to detach-
except
the home-site-select
Detach Site from Hierarchy
.
2. Click
Yes
.
3.
The detached site is removed and the
Federated Sites Hierarchy
pane is updated.
Tip:
You do not have to connect to a site to detach it. Just point your mouse to the relevant site and right
click, select
Detach Site from Hierarchy
.
Detach Home-site from Parent Hierarchy(Location: Home-site, which has a parent)
Prerequisites
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