Link the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance to an RSA

Linking the appliance to the Remote Site Appliance (RSA) enables the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance to be aware of the RSA. Linking enables you to access the RSA and the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance from the same session if the user name and password on the linked appliances match.

In most cases you can link an RSA with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance at installation time. However, if you clear the configuration on an RSA, making it unaware of the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance, use this procedure to link it to the RSA.

1.	On the left navigation pane, click Settings > Control Panel to display the Control Panel, then click KACE Linking to display the KACE Linking page.

2.	Click Enable KACE Linking to display the connection settings.

3.	In Host Name, enter a unique, logical name for this appliance. This name appears in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information when appliances are linked.

4.	In Remote Login Expiration enter the number of minutes to keep the link open. When the time period expires, provide login credentials when switching to a linked appliance. The default is 120 minutes.

5.	In Request Timeout, enter the number of seconds the appliance waits for a remote appliance to respond to a linking request. The default is 10 seconds.

6.	Click Save to display the KACE Linking Key Fingerprint and the KACE Linking Key (this server) fields.

7.	Copy the text in the Name field and the text in the Key field and paste it in a central location, such as a Notepad file.

The text that you paste in Notepad is the text that you copy and paste in the Names and Keys from one appliance to the other linked appliances.

8.	Repeat the preceding steps on each RSA that you want to link.

You can also link multiple KACE Systems Deployment Appliances. For more information, see Enable appliance linking.

Add the RSA to the Remote Sites tab to configure the components that you want to synchronize to the RSA.