Configuring server communication information for process agents

You must use the Server Editor to assign a unique server name to each process agent and specify other communication information, and then make these details available to each host computer in the process control network system. This enables all process agents on all host computers to communicate with each other.

1. Start the Server Editor on a host computer and add a server entry for each process agent that you want to include in the process control network system. Save this information.
   Tip: The name of a server entry must consist of 29 or fewer uppercase letters and cannot begin with an integer. The naming convention is to also append _PA to the name so that you can easily identify the server as a process agent in the Server Editor. For example, if you are configuring the process agent on a host named sfosys1, the process agent can be named SFOSYS1_PA. By default, the first process agent installed in a configuration is named NCO_PA.
2. On UNIX, generate an interfaces file that contains the server communication information. The interfaces file is typically named $NCHOME/etc/interfaces.arch, where arch is the UNIX operating system name.

   In a Windows environment, configure server communications on each Windows computer.

3. On UNIX, distribute the updated interfaces file to all host workstations in the configuration.