4.0.0 HP Polyserve Matrix Server Administration Guide (T5392-96052, March 2010)
Management Console to determine the supported features for a particular server.
Select the server on the Servers window, right-click, and select View Features.
The Supported Features window lists all of the Matrix Server features. Any features
not supported by your license are greyed out.
Limit the servers that can join a matrix
The network secret key controls server access to the matrix. When you create a matrix
configuration, you will specify a password that is used as the network secret key.
Servers must have this password to join the matrix. When you add a new server to
the matrix and import the matrix configuration to it, the network secret key will be
included. See the HP PolyServe Matrix Server installation guide for more information.
Migrate existing servers to Matrix Server
In Matrix Server, the names of your servers should be different from the names of the
virtual hosts they support. A virtual host can then respond regardless of the state of
any one of the servers.
In some cases, the name of an existing server may have been published as a network
host before Matrix Server was configured. You can either reassign the public name
of the server to the virtual host, which is generally the better solution, or keep the
published name associated with the server.
• Migrate the existing server name to a virtual hostname. In this case, you will need
to assign a new name to the server. External sites that then access the original
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