Adding and Removing Participants

<< Click to Display Table of Contents >>

Navigation:  Peer Global File Service Help > File Synchronization Jobs > Editing a File Synchronization Job > Participants >

Adding and Removing Participants

This topic describes adding and removing participants in a File Synchronization job.

Adding a Participant

To add a participant:

1.Click the participant in the Available table.

To be available, a host must have Peer Agent installed and successfully connect to the Peer Management Broker.  If a particular host is not displayed in the list, try restarting the Peer Agent Windows Service on that host, and if it successfully connects to the Peer Management Center Broker, then the list will be updated with the computer name of that host.

FS-Edit Job-Participants-Add-1

2.Click the Add button.

The participant is moved to the Selected table.

FS-Edit Job-Participants-Add-2

3.(Optional) Enter the computer's name in the Computer Description column.

4.Enter the path to the folder to be watched in the Directory column.

5.(Optional) Modify whether the participant is a seeding target.

6.(Optional) Modify the participant's detector settings.

7.Click OK or select another item to modify.

Removing a Participant

To remove a participant:

1.Click the participant in the Selected table.

2.Click the Remove button.

The participant is moved to the Available table.

Note: A File Synchronization job must have at least two participants, so if after removing a participant, there is only a single participant, you must add another participant to the job.

3.Click OK or select another item to modify.