Configuration Center is installed as part of the Management Tools component if you install Active Roles on a 64-bit system. You can use the Management Tools package to perform configuration tasks on the local or remote computer that has the current version of the Administration Service or Web Interface installed.
Once installed, the Configuration Center looks for these components on the local computer, and if it does not find any of these components, it prompts you to connect to a remote computer. However, you can also connect to a remote computer by clicking the drop-down menu in the Configuration Center header.
NOTE: Consider the following when planning to use the Configuration Center on a remote computer:
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When connecting to a remote computer, Configuration Center prompts you for a user name and password. The account you use to log in must match the domain user account belonging to the Administrators group on the remote computer. In addition, whether you are going to perform configuration tasks on the local computer or on a remote computer, your login account must be a member of the Administrators group on the computer running Configuration Center.
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To perform configuration tasks on a remote computer, Configuration Center requires Windows PowerShell remoting to be enabled on that computer. PowerShell remoting is enabled by default on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or newer operating systems; however, if it is turned off for any reason on the remote computer, you can enable it by running the Enable-PSRemoting command in Windows PowerShell. For more information, see Enable-PSRemoting in the Microsoft PowerShell documentation.
The Configuration Center is installed and, by default, automatically started after installing the Active Roles Administration Service or Web Interface component on a computer, allowing you to perform the initial configuration tasks for these components. If you close the Configuration Center, you can start it again later from the Windows Start menu or the Apps page of the operating system.
As the Configuration Center can manage Active Roles not only on the local computer but also on remote computers, you can run it both on client and server operating systems. However, you can only install the Configuration Center on a 64-bit operating system. Once the component is installed on a client operating system, you must start and connect it to the remote server where the Administration Service or Web Interface instances you want to configure are installed. Similarly to a server operating system, you can launch the Active Roles Configuration Center either from the Windows Start menu or from the Apps page.
NOTE: To run the Configuration Center on a client computer, you must be logged in with Administrator privileges.
If neither the Administration Service nor the Web Interface is installed on the local computer, the Configuration Center will prompt you to select a remote computer. In the Select Server dialog that appears, supply the fully qualified domain name of a server on which the Administration Service or the Web Interface instance is installed, then enter the name and password of a domain user account that has administrator rights on that server. You can connect to a remote server at any time by clicking the Connect to another server option in the header of the Active Roles Configuration Center.
The Configuration Center lets administrators perform:
Once the Active Roles Setup wizard installs Active Roles, the Configuration Center starts automatically so that administrators can create an Administration Service instance and deploy the default Web Interface sites. The following sections describe these tasks in detail.
