Configure RAS Publishing Agent

To view RAS Publishing Agents installed in a Site, navigate to Infrastructure > Publishing Agents.

A Site must have at least the primary Publishing Agent installed, which is marked so in the Priority column. You can also add secondary agents for redundancy.

To modify the configuration of a Publishing Agent, click it in the list and then click Properties in the middle pane. Click Edit and specify the following options:

• Enable: Enables or disables the Publishing Agent.
• IP: Specifies the server IP address.
• Alternate IPs: Specifies one or more alternate IP addresses separated by a semicolon. These addresses will be used if RAS Secure Client Gateways fail to connect to the RAS Publishing Agent using the address specified in the IP field. This can happen, for example, if Gateways are connecting from a network which is not joined to Active Directory.
• Standby: If selected, puts a secondary Publishing Agent into a standby mode. This means that no agent will connect to this Publishing Agent until another Publishing Agent goes offline. This option is enabled automatically for any new secondary Publishing Agent in excess of the three agents that already exist. It is not recommended to have more than three active Publishing Agents because it may degrade system performance. Using this option you can have more than three agents, but have them in standby mode until they are needed. For more information, see Add a secondary Publishing Agent.

When done making the changes, click Save and then click Apply All Changes.

The ellipsis menu on the main Publishing Agents view has the following items:

• Add: Adds a RAS Publishing Agent to the Site. See the section that follows this one for the information on how to add secondary Publishing Agents.
• Update agent: Update the agent.
• Disable/Enable agent: Enable or disable the agent.
• Logs: Allows to manage logging.
• Promote to primary: Promotes a secondary Publishing Agent to primary.
• Rise priority: Rises the priority of a secondary Publishing Agent (moves it up in the priority list).
• Lower priority: Lowers the priority of a secondary Publishing Agent (moves it down in the list).
• Refresh. Refreshes the Publishing Agents list.
• Delete. Deletes a secondary Publishing Agent from the Site. To delete the current primary Publishing Agent, you first need to promote a secondary Publishing Agent to primary.

Additional information

• Add a secondary Publishing Agent
• Manage RAS Publishing Agents