Managing farms

To manage farms, select Farm Configuration > Farms and use the toolbar options. These tasks are performed on the Farms tab:

Add a farm to IPF
Update a farm
Delete a farm from IPF
Poke the farm job processor

Adding a farm to IPF

Steps are provided in the portal installation guide.

Updating a farm

You can change the description and the default IPF instance name.

You can change the load balancer only when there are no servers in the farm.

Deleting a farm from IPF

You can delete the farm only when no servers are in the farm.

Poking the farm job processor

This wakes up the farm job processor on all machines in the farm. It is used when there are pending farm jobs. In most cases, IPF wakes up the job processors as needed, but occasionally conditions exist for which you must poke the job processor manually.