User's Guide

AirTight Management Console Configuration
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However, if you make changes these policies at the mount point of a child server and save these changes
to be applied recursively, the changes are pushed to all the locations present directly under the mount
point.
To inherit a policy from the parent server, do the following.
1.
Select the location on the child server where you want to inherit policies from the parent server.
2.
Navigate to the policy to inherit.
3.
Click the Inherit Policy link. A message asking for confirmation to inherit policies appears.
4.
Click Yes on the confirmation message. The parent server policy is applied to the selected location
on the child server.
Manage Child Servers from Parent Server in Server Cluster
A server cluster is a group of servers. A server cluster comprises a parent server and one or more child
servers.
A server cluster is created to manage multiple servers using a single server. This managing server is
called the parent server and the servers that are managed from the parent server are called the child
servers. The parent server retrieves aggregated data from multiple child servers in the cluster and
displays it on the AirTight Management Console along with the parent server data. You can also push
common policies onto multiple child servers from a parent server.
A server (parent server or child server) can be a part of only one cluster at any given point. A child server
cannot be the parent of any other server in the cluster.
The creation of a server cluster and management of servers in the server cluster is done using the server
command line console. Refer to the 'Set up and Manage Server Cluster' chapter for details on setting up
server cluster and to 'Server Config Shell Commands' chapter for the server cluster commands, in the
respective server installation guide .
Viewing of the aggregated server cluster data and management of policies on the child servers from the
parent server in the cluster is done through AirTight Management Console. You must be a superuser to
be able to view server cluster related options and manage server cluster data and policies through
AirTight Management Console.
Once you are done with assigning a parent server to a server cluster and adding child servers to the
server cluster, you can login to AirTight Management Console of the parent server, and then navigate to
Configuration>System>Server Cluster. Create one or more locations, if they are not already present, to
mount the child servers on the parent server location tree. If the locations have already been added,
mount the child servers on to these locations.
You can mount the child servers and also copy policies from one server to another server in the same
server cluster.
You can print a list of child servers in the server cluster. You can search for servers in the list.
Mount Child Server on Parent Server Location tree
You must mount the individual child servers on the parent server location tree to be able to manage
policies on the child server through the parent server or to view the aggregated server data for the entire
server cluster. A valid license must be applied on the child server before you can mount it on the parent
server location tree.
You cannot mount a child server on a parent server location tree in the following situations