Managing Backup Publishing Agents

Enabling or Disabling a Backup Publishing Agent

To enable or disable a backup Publishing Agent on a site, select it in the Publishing Agents list and then select or clear the check-box at the beginning of the row.

Changing Backup Publishing Agent Priority

Each RAS Publishing Agent in the list is given a priority. By default, the local RAS Publishing Agent is given the Master priority which cannot be changed. To change the priority of other Publishing Agents in the farm, select a Publishing Agent and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to move it up or down the list. The higher it is in the list, the higher priority it has.

Promoting a Backup Publishing Agent to the Master Publishing Agent

In case the primary Publishing Agent cannot be recovered, you can promote a Backup Publishing Agent to Master as follows:

1. Open the Parallels Remote Application Server Console on the server that you would like to promote (all required files are automatically installed when a server is added as a backup Publishing Agent server).
2. Select the Farm category and navigate to the Publishing Agents node.
3. Select the RAS Publishing Agent and then click Promote Backup to Master in the Tasks drop-down menu.
4. Click OK once the process is finished.

Deleting a Backup Publishing Agent

To delete a backup Publishing Agent, select it in the list and then click Delete in the Tasks drop-down menu.