Does a joined machine to a server site also be federated to a Portal?

Question

We have an ArcGIS Enterprise Multi Machine Deployment involving 2 machines for ArcGIS Server (Machine C joined to Machine B in the screenshot below). We have successfully federated the Server Site on Machine B.

Now, Does a joined machine to a server site also be federated to a Portal? If we try it returns an error stating Federateserverstatus0.

Thank you!!

TimoT · Answer

If you've joined machine C to the existing federated server site, you don't need to perform the federation workflow again.

Think of it more as though you're federating a server site rather than just an individual server. Any new machines you join to the existing site will simply be added to the federated site. If you navigate to the security section in either server manager or server admin for machine C, you should find these security pages tell you this server is federated and has adopted the Portal's security model.

If you have another server site that is unfederated and you add additional machines to that site, then all machines in this site will be unfederated.

As for the perpetual please wait loading bar when accessing ArcGIS Server Manager via https://machineC.test.net:6443/arcgis/manager - according to Esri documentation, it seems intended for you not to be able to access ArcGIS Server Manager via port 6443 after you configure a highly available server site. See the documentation below:

* Also be aware that using a load balancer URL affects the way you connect to ArcGIS Server Manager. For example, if you federate using a load balancer URL, you must connect to Server Manager using the load balancer; you cannot use the default Server Manager URL of https://gisserver.domain.com:6443/arcgis/manager.

However, I've been able to get around this by ensuring the SSL certificate you have bound to machineC's ArcGIS Server on port 6443 (the underlying tomcat webserver) is trusted by your browser. See the Esri tech article below - Problem: Unable to Access a Federated Server Manager Using the Google Chrome Browser (esri.com)

BillFox · Answer

take a look here: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/11.1/deploy/windows/configuring-a-multiple-machine-deployment.htm

Scott_Tansley · Answer

Im sorry. Its very late here so this will be my last message today.

are all of the documented firewalls open between machines b and c?

where is you configuration (file) store in relation to machines b and c?  Can both machines communicate freely with it?

cam you communicate from the web adaptor machine to machine c?