Promoting a Secondary Director to Primary Director

When a Primary Director fails and a Secondary Director takes over, it has a backup copy of the internal database that is used to store user accounts and other properties. However, because it can’t resynchronize this information to the Primary Director when it returns, it is read-only and cannot be modified.

In a situation where the failed Primary Director is unavailable for some time, you might need to promote the Secondary Director to the role of Primary Director, and possibly assign another Secondary Director. Note that this requires a failover setup with two Director machines that are both capable of handling a volume necessary for your grid’s demands, plus an optional Secondary Director.

To promote a Secondary Director to Primary Director:

1.

Log in to the Secondary Director in the GridServer Administration Tool.

2.

Go to Admin > System Admin > Manager Reinstall.

3.

Select Manager Configuration and click Next.

4.

In the Director list, select Primary.

5.

Finish the configuration.