The following section provides information only about the stages of installation that differ when you are installing the first server in your farm. When you want to add servers to an existing server farm, run Setup on those servers and choose the option to join an existing farm.
Stage 1: Initial Setup
Until you reach the Create or Join a Server Farm page of the Citrix
Presentation Server for Windows Setup wizard, Setup is identical whether you are joining or creating a farm. When you are running Setup on a subsequent server in the farm you are creating, you install the major components that you want on the server just like you do when you run Setup to create a farm. See “Creating a New Farm” on page 52 for details about the initial pages in Setup.
Stage 2: Joining a Server Farm
In the Create or Join a Server Farm page of the Citrix Presentation Server for Windows Setup wizard, select Join an existing farm. After you click Next, the Join a Server Farm page appears, which requires you to configure the server’s connection to the existing server farm. This page requires that you either perform one of the following:
• Specify the name of the server where you installed Presentation Server initially or the name of the server through which you want to connect to the data store (an intermediary server)
• Create an ODBC data source that you can use to connect to the SQL Server When you do this, you are specifying whether you want the server you are currently installing to communicate with the data store directly or indirectly.
• If your data store is on a SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2 database and you want to connect to the data store directly, see “To add a server to an existing server farm with a SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2 data store” on page 75.
• If you want to use an Access or SQL Server Express database as your data store and you want to connect to the data store indirectly, see “To add a server to an existing server farm with an Access or SQL Server Express data store” on page 75.
To add a server to an existing server farm with a SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2 data store
1. On the Create or Join a Server Farm Setup screen, select Join an existing farm and click Next.
2. Select Connect directly to the database using ODBC. Select your database from the list and click Next.
3. Configure the ODBC driver associated with the database you are using. For instructions for doing this for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and IBM DB2 databases, see the documentation for the relevant database.
To add a server to an existing server farm with an Access or SQL Server Express data store
1. On the Create or Join a Server Farm Setup screen, select Join an existing farm and click Next.
2. Select Connect to a database on this server and then enter the name of the server hosting the Access or SQL Server Express database. The default communication port is 2512.
3. Accept the default zone name or enter a different zone name, and click Next.
4. On the Access the Database on a Citrix Presentation Server computer page, enter credentials for the server to which you are connecting, and click Next.
After performing these procedures, either the Citrix Licensing Settings page or the IMA Encryption Key Type page appears depending if IMA encryption is enabled on the farm you are joining.
Stage 3: Specifying the Location of the IMA Encryption Key File
If you have IMA encryption enabled on the farm you are joining, Setup does not prompt you to enable IMA encryption. Setup automatically detects that IMA encryption is already enabled on the farm you are joining and prompts you to specify the location of the key file.
Depending on whether or not you already loaded a key on this server before you began Setup, the options that are enabled on this page vary.
You cannot generate a new key when you are joining a farm. Consequently, the Generate and Install New Key option is disabled when you are joining a farm.
To specify the location of the IMA encryption key file on a server that is joining a farm
1. Install Key From File. Select this option if you did not load a key file on this server and Setup detects that you have IMA encryption enabled on the farm. Then follow the procedure “To install a key from a file” on page 67.
2. Use Previously Loaded Key. Select this option if you loaded the key that you generated for the first server in the farm onto this server. This option is available only if a key is already loaded on the local server. If you are using a previously loaded key and you choose this option, follow the procedure
“To use a previously loaded key during Setup” on page 68.
To verify that IMA encryption is enabled and configured properly on the servers, use the query option in the CTXKEYTOOL, which is located in the Support folder on the Server CD. For information about the query option, see
“CTXKEYTOOL” on page 309.
Stage 4: Using Farm Licensing Settings
On the Citrix Licensing Settings page, you are prompted to specify licensing settings for this server. It can either use the same settings as the farm or point to a license server that the other servers in the farm do not use.
To specify the license server for this server 1. Select one of the following options:
• Enter the host name for the machine hosting your Citrix License Server. Use this option if you want to specify that the server you are installing points to a different license server than the rest of the farm.
Enter the host name for the license server and the port number, if the license server is not using the default port number (27000).
• Use the global farm settings for the license server. Use this option if you want this server to point to the same license server as the rest of the servers in the farm.
• Enter the correct host name later.
2. Click Next.
For more information about licensing, see Getting Started with Citrix Licensing Guide and the associated whitepapers listed there.