SharePoint Central Administration is categorized into 10 configuration sections and each section contains the links to the pages where administrators can manage the SharePoint functionalities through the nice interface.
Refer the previous articles,
- Part 1 - SharePoint Server 2016 Central Administration to know more about 10 categorization in SharePoint 2016
- Part 2 - SharePoint Server 2016 Central Administration to know about the configuration settings available under Application Management
System Settings
System Settings is one of the configuration sections which contains the links to the pages; it's used to manage the Servers, Services, features, solutions, email configurations, mobile configurations and farm-wide settings,

Figure 1: System Settings
- Servers in Farm http://<SharePoint_URL>/_admin/FarmServers.aspx
This page is used to provide information about each server associated with the farm with roles and services.
Administrator has the control to manage the server within the farm and navigate to the servers in the farm page by accessing Central Administration, System Settings, Manage servers in this farm,
Figure 2: Manage servers in this farm - Services in Farm http://<SharePoint_URL>/_admin/FarmServices.aspx
This page is used to enable and configure the services on the local farm.
Navigate to configure the services in the farm page by accessing Central Administration, System Settings, Manage services in this farm.
Figure 3: Manage services in this farm - Services on Server http://<SharePoint_URL>/_admin/Server.aspx
This page is used to monitor and manage (start, stop, restart) the individual service based on the selected server in the farm.
Navigate to the services on server page by accessing, Central Administration, System Settings, Manage services on server,
Figure 4: Manage services on server - Role Conversion http://<SharePoint_URL>/_admin/RoleConversion.aspx
This page is used to convert the role for each server in the farm.
Navigate to the services on server page by accessing Central Administration, System Settings, Convert server role in this farm.
Figure 5: Convert server role in this farm










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