Manage and Configure Farm servers

1. Add, enable/disable, edit or delete a farm server by clicking on Admin > Configuration > Farm Server



1. Provide the farm server address that is to be added
2. Specify the farm admin credential to add the farm server for monitoring

To monitor Office 365 SharePoint account, click on Add Office 365 link

2. To edit the farm credential data, click on the 'Edit' button corresponding to the farm server



3. To enable/disable specific farm server, click on the corresponding 'Enable/Disable' button
4. To delete a particular farm server, click on the corresponding 'Delete' button

Note: Using SharePoint Manager Plus, you can add a client system and SharePoint server that are in the same domain or that are in the different domains

Case1: Client system and SharePoint server belonging to same domain If the client system and the SharePoint server are in the same domain, then ensure that PS Remoting is enabled in that remote system. Steps to enable PS Remoting in the remote system Run the following command in PowerShell
1. Enable-PSRemoting -Force

Case2: Client system and SharePoint server belonging to different domains If the client system and the SharePoint server are in different domain or workgroup, then configure the Trusted hosts settings in both the systems Steps to configure Trusted Hosts Settings

Run the following command in PowerShell (both client and server machines)
1. Enable-PSRemoting -Force
2. Set-Item wsman:\localhost\client\trustedhosts -Value <IP_ADDRESS_OF_THE_OTHER_SYSTEM>
3. Restart-Service WinRm

Adding new site collections
1. With SharePoint Manager Plus, instead of adding a entire farm server, you can add specific site collections alone for monitoring. To do so, go to Admin > Configuration and then click on the Add Farm Server button.
2. In that, click on the Add Site Collection link. You will now be asked to enter the site collection details as below.



1. Provide the URL of the site collection that is to be monitored.
2. Provide the appropriate user name and password so as to add the site collection for monitoring.

Note: Audit data will not be fetched for site collections added through this form. To get the audit data of a specific site collection, you need to add the corresponding farm server.