Managing the List of Target Front-End Servers

You can use the features of the Deployment tab in the Interface Editor to replicate all the search interface settings from one Coveo Front-End server to one or more target Front-End servers. This feature is useful to easily implement a Front-End staging process (see Planning Your Front-End Staging Process).

Before deploying interfaces from a source Front-End server to target Front-End servers, on the source Front-End server, you must create the list of Front-End servers to which you want to push search interface settings.

To manage the list of target Front-End servers

1. On the source Coveo Front-End server, the one you identified as the staging Front-End server, access the Interface Editor (see Opening the .NET Interface Editor).

2. In the Interface Editor, select the Deployment tab.

3. In the Deployment tab:

   • To add a new target Front-End server to the list:

     1. Click Add.

        

     2. On the new table row:

        1. In the URL column, enter the URL of the target Coveo Front-End server in the http://[Front-End_Server]:[Port_number] format.

        2. In the User Account column, enter the user name for the account used to connect to the target server. Enter the name in the domain\username format, and then enter the corresponding password.

           Important: The specified user must:

           • Be an Active Directory user.

           • Be a member of either the Administrator or Search Interface Designer administration role (see About Administration Roles). In the case of a Front-End server connected to a remote index, the user administration role must be defined in the Master server of the remote Coveo instance.

           • Have read/write access to the C:\Program Files\Coveo .NET Front-End 12\ folder on the Front-End server.

        3. Click the check mark icon () to complete the server addition.

           The local server attempts to connect to the target server and reports the connection results in the Status column as described in the following table.

           Status	Description
           Up-to-Date	The search interfaces files on the target Front-End server are an exact replica of the ones on the source server.
           [Date]	The search interfaces files on the target Front-End server are NOT an exact replica of the ones on the source server. The date indicates the last modification date for the search interface files on the target server.
           Unavailable	The connection to the target server failed. A tooltip describing the error appears when you leave the pointer over the status. Note: Ensure that firewalls on both servers allow the communication on the specified port.

   • To edit the parameters for a target Front-End server:

     • Click the pencil icon () at the end of the row for the server that you want to edit.

     • Edit the URL and User Account columns, and then click the check mark icon ().

   • To eliminate a target Front-End server from the list:

     1. In the table, select the check box at the beginning of the row for the server that you want to eliminate.

     2. Click Delete.

     3. When prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.

     OR

     1. In the table, click the delete icon () at the end of the row for the server that you want to eliminate.

     2. When prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.