Hi,

I'm trying to setup RM in a dedicated farm. I'm unable to find the powershell commands for the same.

However this is what I've tried so far. I have 3 farms for my scenario. Farm 1 - Dedicated RM farm. Farm 2 & Farm 3 are SharePoint Content Farms. I am trying to create Machine Pools for Farm 2 and Farm 3 (in Farm 1) and use them to set up Routing Rules. However I'm unable to create Machine Pool in Farm1 as the servers in Farm 2 and Farm 3 are not valid Routing Targets in Request Management Setup in Farm 1. How to define Machine Pool in Farm 1? Appreciate any pointers in this regard.

The Request Management service isn't designed to be shared across a farm boundary and can't be used the way that you are describing.  It can only be used inside the confines of a specific farm.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply. However as per my understanding of MSDN article this is possible. Please could you clarify on the same.

Thanks,

Vid

From reading the article you are correct.  I was not aware that this scenario was possible.  Did you publish the Request management service to the other farms?

Hi Paul,

How do I publish a service? As Request Management is just a service and no service application. I can find references for publishing service applications but not for publishing a service.

Regards,

Vid

I suggest you take a look at the following article from Spence Harbar.  Its about as thorough as anything I've seen.  ONe of his comments that might also effect you is that Request Management is only designed to work with Host named Site Collections and not host header or AAM based WEb Applications.  That might also be part of your problem.

http://www.harbar.net/archive/2013/07/24/Configuring-a-Dedicated-ldquoCrawl-Front-Endrdquo-with-Request-Management.aspx