Setting Hosting Controller with Merak involves three steps.

1. Installation and configuration of HC Secondary Setup. See the Installation section for setup instructions.

2. Enabling Merak in configuration.

3. Configuring Merak settings on both Primary and Remote machines..

Configuration On Primary HC Machine:

1. Login to Hosting Controller as Host Administrator, click on Preferences, click Mail Settings.

2. In Mail Servers Configurations page, enable Mail On Remote System check box.

3. Select Merak from Mail Server Type drop down list. Click button to go to Step 2.

4. Enter Merak web access port number in Merak Port box. Default port number is 32000.

5. Enter the IP of the remote server where Merak is running in Remote Mail Server IP box. e.g. 192.168.0.2. Click button.

Configuration On Secondary Machine:

1. In Start menu Programs folder, go to Hosting Controller and click Settings.

2.  In Settings dialog, click on Mail tab and checkthe Enabled check box.

3.  Select Merak from Mail Server drop down list.

4. Enter the port number, on which Merak web service is running, in Merak Port box.

5. Click on Servers Tab, enter the IP of the primary machine where primary HC server is installed in Primary Server IP box. Click OK.

After configuration make sure.

1. DCOM is configured.

2. HostingController service is running on both primary and secondary machine. Refer to Service Manager for more information.

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