When you initiate secondary site installation from the parent site, activity takes place on the primary site server and on the computer that you have designated to be the secondary site server. This flowchart documents the activity that takes place on these two computers from the time an administrator initiates secondary site setup at the SMS Administrator console (using the Create Secondary Site Wizard), through the activities at the secondary site server to the receipt and processing of the secondary site’s site control file at the primary site.
After setup is complete, the SMS Bootstrap service removes itself from the secondary site server. Site Component Manager installs the SMS Executive service and its related threads.