Working with sites
This topic provides instructions on adding, editing, or deleting sites in TrueSight Network Automation – Multi-Server Administration. It also provides instructions on pushing content to sites and searching for devices across sites.
Adding a site
- Log in to Multi-Server Administration with the msaadmin user credentials.
- Click
. - In Site URL, enter the URL for the Network Automation application server that you want to add as a site in the following format:
<tsnaApplicationServerHostName> | IP Address>:<portNumber>. - Click Verify to ensure that you have entered the URL correctly.
If you have entered the URL correctly, the Site Name and Description fields are populated automatically. These fields are populated if they have been entered into the system parameter for that Network Automation application server on the Edit System Parameters page. - Confirm whether the Site Name field is populated. If not, enter a name for the site.
- Enter an optional description for the site, and click Submit.
On the Manage Sites page, information about the added site, such as application server URL, name and status (offline or online) appears.
When you click the URL, you are directed to the login page of the TrueSight Network Automation GUI for that application server. The Actions column shows the actions you can perform on a site.
Editing a site
- On the Manage Sites page, click Edit
in the Actions column. - Optionally, modify the site name or description, and click Submit.
Deleting a site
On the Manage Sites page, click Delete 
in the Actions column.
Pushing content to sites
You can push the following type of content from one TrueSight Network Automation application server (also called source site) to multiple application servers (also called target sites) simultaneously using Multi Server Administration:
- Combo groups
- Device Security Profiles
- Global Substitution Parameters
- Templates
To push content from one application server to others
Log on to Multi-Server Administration as a site user.
The Site Detail page shows the following details:
Column
Description
Site URL
Displays the URL of the application server that the msaadmin user added as a site.
When you click this link, you are directed to the login page of the TrueSight Network Automation GUI for that application server.Site Name
Displays the default name or the name that the msaadmin user added.
Description
Displays the default description or the description that the msaadmin user added.
Status
Displays whether or not the site is accessible or not to the logged on site user indicated by the following values:
- Accessible: Indicates that the site user has the Login Using Web Services right to perform operations on the site and credentials of the site user match the user credentials on the corresponding application server.
- Unauthorized: Indicates that the site user does not have the Login Using Web Services right to perform operations on the site, credentials of the site user do not match the user credentials on the corresponding application server, or the site user does not exist on the application server.
- Offline: Indicates that site is down or not reachable.
- From the Content Push menu, choose the type of content that you want to push.
- From the Source Site list, select the site from which want to push the content.
The content present in the source site is displayed. For example, if you have chosen Combo Groups from the Content Push menu, combo groups in the source site are displayed. You can click a combo group to see its details. - Select the content that you want to push to the target sites, and click the Content Push button.
- Select the target sites to which you want to push the content.
You can also search for target sites. - Select the Overwrite existing option to overwrite if the content with the same name exists in the target site.
If you do not select this option, the content with the same name is not copied into the target system. Click Push.
If the operation is successful, the Content Push Results page is displayed.
Searching for devices across sites
TrueSight Network Automation – Multi-Server Administration lets you search devices across multiple application servers (also called sites) with the following attributes:
- Name: You can search by the name of a device.
- Address: You can search by host name, IP address or URL.
- Dynamic fields (not enabled by default): You can search by the name of a dynamic field.
You can use asterisk ( * ) as the wildcard characters to search for devices.
Enabling search by dynamic fields
By default, search by dynamic fields is not enabled in Multi-Server Administration. You need to configure the deviceSearchByDynamicField property in the global.properties file (located in the MSA_DATA (C:\Program Files\BMC Software\BCA-Networks-MSA\data directory) to enable this search. You can specify the names of those dynamic fields from the Network Automation instances with which you want to search for devices.
Also, if you want to display the dynamic field column in the device search results, you need to configure the displayDynamicFieldsInList property. Specify the names of the dynamic fields in this property that you want to display as columns in the device search results.
To search for a device
Log on to the Multi-Server Administration as a site user.
- Click Search.
From the first list, select or filter for the attributes with which you want to search for the devices.
- In the Device Search field, enter the values of those attributes, and click Search.
Search results are displayed. When you click a site link, you are directed to the login page of the Network Automation application server GUI that you added as a site.
Click a device link in the Device Name column to see the details of the device on the Device Details page.