Viewing Sites in the RAS Console

To view existing sites, open the Parallels RAS Console and select the Farm category in the left pane. Existing sites are listed in the right pane.

Note: The Farm node will only be visible to an administrator who has full permissions to manage the farm. For more information about farm/site permissions, please refer to Managing Farm Administrative Accounts .

The Farm category displays the configuration of only one site at a time. If you login as the farm administrator, the configuration of the RAS Licensing Site will be displayed. If you login as an administrator who has access to a specific site (but not the farm), the configuration of that site will be displayed.

Current site

The site which configuration is currently displayed in the console is marked as "Current Site" in the Type column. The column also displays other site attributes. For example, "Licensing Site / Local Site / Current Site".

Switching between sites

If you have multiple sites and want to manage a particular one, right-click it in the right pane and choose Switch to this Site . The site configuration will be loaded into the RAS Console, so you can see its components and configure them as you require.

You can also switch to a site by clicking View > Switch Site in the main menu. This will open the Change Site dialog where you can select a desired site.

Renaming the site

To rename a site, select the Site in the middle pane and then click the Rename button next to the Site name field in the right pane. While here, you can also view the site configuration overview, which includes the list of the existing core components. Read more about it below.

Site configuration overview

When you select the Site node in the middle pane, the Site Info tab page in the right pane displays the list of core Parallels RAS components that have been configured for the site. The components are organized in the list as follows:

• RD Sessions Hosts . Lists existing RD Session Hosts servers.
• VDI Hosts . Lists existing VDI Host servers.
• Remote PCs . Lists existing Remote PCs.
• Gateways . Lists existing RAS Secure Client Gateway servers.
• Publishing Agents . Lists existing RAS Publishing Agent servers.

To collapse or expand a component group, click an "arrow up" or "arrow down" icon on the right side of the list. Note that if no servers of a particular type have been added to the site, the group name will not be displayed in the list.

The component list includes the following information for each server:

• Agent . Indicates whether the agent software is installed on the server and is functioning properly.
• CPU % . Current CPU utilization.
• RAM % . Current RAM utilization.
• Sessions . The number of currently active user sessions.
• Preferred PA . The name of the RAS Publishing Agent designated as preferred for this server.
• Operating System . Operating system version installed on the server.
• Agent Version . The agent version installed on the server.

Opening component editors

The component list described above gives you just an overview. If you would like to open a component editor (where you can configure it), right-click a component (a server) and choose Show in the Editor in the context menu. This will take you to the area in the Parallels RAS Console where you can configure servers of this type.

You can also open component editors by selecting a desired component type in the middle pane of the Parallels RAS Console. The list of editors includes:

• Designer . Displays a visual representation of the site. Use the icons at the top to add more components to the diagram (if you add a component, it will actually be added to the site). Click Print to print the diagram.
• RD Session Hosts . Add, remove, and configure RD Session Host servers.
• VDI Hosts . Add, remove, and configure VDI Hosts.
• Remote PCs . Add, remove, and configure Remote PCs.
• Gateways . Add, remove, and configure RAS Secure Client Gateways.
• Publishing Agents . Add, remove, and configure RAS Publishing Agents.
• HALB . Configure High Availability Load Balancing.
• Themes . Configure themes for the HTML5 client.
• Settings . Configure general site settings.