Site administration

A site is a remote physical or cloud location that enables file synchronization and workflow collaboration across a geographically distributed organization.

Servers and clients owned by elevated (admin or employee role) users can be assigned to sites, defining were they are located.

Site types

• Main site; This is the default site within a workspace, servers are assigned to this site by default and the server on main site serving the default volume is called the main server. See servers for more in-depth information. A workspace must have exactly one main site.

• Roaming;This is a built-in site to which all standard role user clients are assigned, this can also be called the road warrior site.

• accsyn; This is the accsyn cloud storage site, and is primarily assigned new workspaces in the default accsyn setup before moving to BYOS. The accsyn site can be used in tandem with onprem storage.

Site location based WAN IP

Clients belonging to elevated workspace users, but not assigned to any particular site, will be loosely assigned to the site if their WAN IP matches the WAN IP of a server on the site. This affects file transfers (see below)

Servers will not be auto-assigned this way, they will manually have to be assigned to the site.

Sites and file transfers

When a download or upload is initiated from a machine assigned to a site, or detected to be at the site based on the WAN IP, the transfer will be carried out by the site server and not the client itself.

Sites and compute/render jobs

For more information, see Workflows compute section.

To create a new site, click NEW SITE button in upper right corner.

Set a name for the site, it must be unique within the workspace and contain letters a-zA-Z0-9_.- only with a maximum length of 32 chars.

Description (optional); Give the site a description, for display only

When created, you can take the following actions:

• Serve volume(s) at site, go to https://accsyn.io/admin/Volumes, edit the volume that should be served by server and then go to "Servers" tab were you can set the server. Make sure storage is available at the site at the same physical disk locations as on configured at volume.

• Assign compute engines to server lanes, to enable remote office/cloud rendering capabilities. For more information, see Workflows.

To edit a server, click on it in the list or choose Edit from the site's menu.

Toolbar

• Disable site; Click this button to disable the site, note that all on jobs involving the site will be interrupted.

• Enable site; Enable the site again.

Servers & Clients

List of servers and clients assigned to the site.

• Online status; green if online and checked in recently.

• Hostname(code); The hostname.

• Type; The type - server, app, user server.

• Last checkin; When the server or client were last seen.

• Spawned; When it was created.

• ID; The internal (API) ID of server/client.

NOTE: Site and compute/render servers require additional BYOS licenses.

Attributes

• Code; The name of the site, click to edit.

• Status; The status of the site.

• Main site: Denotes the main site.

• Description; Set the optional description site should have.

Settings

Sites currently have no settings.

Metadata

Define metadata for this site, will be appended to upstream metadata and provided to jobs with Workflows - API calls, engine execution, hooks execution, and so on. 

To delete a site, open the server's menu (three dots icon) on the right hand side and choose Delete.

NOTES: 

• Server(s) assigned to site must be re-assigned to another site before proceeding.

• The main site cannot be deleted, reach out to support to have a another site be set as the main site.

• This cannot be undone.