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Configuring the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server (Oracle)

After you configure the remote event cells, you must configure the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server.

For Calbro Services, this section explains the steps required to configure the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server, newyork.calbro.com, for disaster recovery.

Step 1: Install BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server on the recovery server

On the recovery server, install BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server and provide the following parameters that you recorded when you installed BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server on the primary server.

  • Installation location
  • SIM cell inputs
  • Admin cell inputs
  • Administrator information
  • Central Monitoring Repository destination directory

To enable Disaster Recovery Mode at the time of installation

  1. On the Configuration Tasks screen, select Disaster Recovery Mode.
  2. On the Configuring Disaster Recovery screen, enter the Hostname Alias <aliasName>.
     The default alias is pronet.

If you do not enable Disaster Recovery during installation, you can configure the alias after installation by running the pw system change hostname aliasName command.

For detailed information about the installation of BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server, see the following topics:

Step 2: Edit the hosts files

On the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server, edit the hosts file with an <aliasName> that is the same alias name as the one on the primary server.

  1. Open the hosts file, located in the following directory:
    • (Windows) \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc
    • (UNIX) /etc

  2. In the hosts file, add an entry for the alias name set for the primary BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server by using the following syntax:

    127.0.0.1 localhost <aliasName>

    ::1 localhost <aliasName> (for IPv6 systems)

For the Calbro Services example, <aliasName> refers to pronet, which was set as the primary BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server.

Step 3: (Windows only) Set the startup type of Infrastructure Management service to manual

  1. On a command prompt, type services.msc, and press Enter.
  2. Access the properties of the Infrastructure Management Server service, and set the Startup type list to Manual.

Step 4: Restart the computer with the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server

Restart the computer with the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server for the changes to take effect.

Step 5: Stop the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server

  • (Windows) From the system icon tray, right-click the Infrastructure Management icon, and click Server Stop.
  • (Solaris) Access the pw command-line interface, and enter the pw system stop command.

Step 6: End additional processes

If the following processes are running on your computer, end the processes.

  • (Windows) Pproxsrv.exe and Pwtray.exe
  • (Solaris) Pproxsrv

Step 7: Copy the configuration files

Copy the entire \pw directory from the primary BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server to the \pw directory of the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server.

Note

BMC recommends that you use any third-party file synchronization and backup software to copy the \pw directory because traditional copying can result in any unexpected failure.

Step 8: Clear all the log files

On the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server, navigate to the \pw\pronto\logs directory, and move all the log files to a backup directory.

Step 9: Start the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server

  • (Windows) From the system icon tray, right-click the Infrastructure Management icon, and click Server Start.
  • (Solaris) Access the pw command-line interface, and enter the pw system start command.

Note

If you have problems with starting the service, ensure that the Oracle Database instance is running.

Step 10: Validate the configuration

  1. Launch the operator console by using the alias name set for the primary BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server in a browser.
     For the Calbro Services example, access the console through the following URL:

    http://pronet
  2. Validate the data by using the FlashCheck option.

     For more details about the FlashCheck option, see Examining current data (FlashCheck).

Step 11: Stop the recovery BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server

  • (Windows) From the system icon tray, right-click the Infrastructure Management icon, and click Server Stop.
  • (Solaris) Access the pw command-line interface, and enter the pw system stop command.

Step 10: Stop the Oracle Database instance.

Note

For any licensing issues or problems, contact BMC Customer Support.

Note

BMC recommends running the

pw alarmsync
command to synchronize the database and the impact management cell database after the recovery.

Related topic

Worksheet-for-configuring-a-disaster-recovery-system-for-Infrastructure-Management-Oracle

 

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