Worksheet to configure disaster recovery for Infrastructure Management (Oracle)

The following table lists the steps that you must perform to configure a Infrastructure Management disaster recovery system. Use the table to record the required disaster recovery information and confirm actions. This information will help you perform a seamless configuration of disaster recovery setup.

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Bringing up the recovery or primary TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server (Oracle) after a disaster Open link

Worksheet to configure disaster recovery setup

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Configure the DNS Server 
Specify an alias name for the primary TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. 
Configure the primary TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server 
Edit the hosts file with an entry for the alias name set for the primary TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. 

Record the following parameters. You must enter the same ones during installation of recovery server:

  • Installation location
  • SIM cell:
    • Instance name
    • Port
    • Encryption key
  • Admin cell:
    • Port
    • Encryption key
  • Administration information:
    • Sender email address
    • Administrator email address
    • SMTP server name or IP address
  • Central Monitoring Repository destination directory
 
Enable Disaster Recovery Mode. 
(Windows only) For the TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server service, set the Startup type to Manual. 

Configure the remote event cells Open link

 
To flush and reset the cache, open a command prompt on a remote event cell and run the following command:
ipconfig /flushdns
 
Restart the remote event cell and similarly configure all the remote event cells. 
Configure the recovery TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server 

Use the same entries that you configured for the primary TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server:

  • Installation location
  • SIM cell:
    • Instance name
    • Port
    • Encryption key
  • Admin cell:
    • Port
    • Encryption key
  • Administration information:
    • Sender email address
    • Administrator email address
    • SMTP server name or IP address
  • Central Monitoring Repository destination directory
 
Enable Disaster Recovery Mode. 
On the recovery TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server, edit the hosts file with an entry for the <aliasName>that is the same alias name as the one on the primary server. 
(Windows only) For the TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server service, set the Startup type to Manual. 
Restart the computer with the recovery TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. 
Stop the recovery TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. 

If the following processes are running on your computer, end them:

  • (Windows) Pproxsrv.exe and Pwtray.exe
  • (Solaris) Pproxsrv
 
Copy the entire \pw directory from the primary TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server to the \pw directory of the recovery TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. 
Move all the log files from \pw\pronto\logs to a backup directory. 
Start the recovery TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server and validate the configuration. 
Stop the recovery TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. 
Stop the Oracle Database instance. 
(If applicable) Configure disaster recovery for Infrastructure Management Reporting Engine with Oracle Data Guard 

Backing up configuration and database files (Oracle) Open link

 
Back up configuration files. 
Back up KB files. 
Back up cell database files. 
Back up Oracle Database files. 

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