Provision Central Admin into another machine in the same Farm

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Recently, I came across a scenario where in the "Central Admin" site had become unresponsive. The server might have developed a temporary snag which could have resulted in this. If you would know, during any farm setup, the Central Admin web site is created only on the first server (by default). The site is not avaialble on the other servers which are later joined to the farm. 

If you think that you are stuck...read below,-

Tip to provision the Central Admin site on another box/machine joined in the same farm.

  1. Execute psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -provision commandto provision the central admin web site.
  2. Then use stsadm.exe -o addzoneurl to set the new URL for the Central Admin site.