Preparing Realm Servers for a Disaster Recovery Site

The first task in arranging disaster recovery for TIBCO FTL is to run realm servers that parallel the servers at the main site.

Prerequisites

The physical infrastructure at the disaster recovery site must be operational.

The communications infrastructure connecting the main site to the disaster recovery site must be operational.

Procedure

  1. Start a disaster recovery realm server at the disaster recovery site.
    • Supply the command line parameter --drfor with an argument that specifies the primary realm server.
    • If authentication is required, supply the --server.user and --server.password parameters, with credentials that the disaster recovery server can use to authenticate itself to the primary realm server.

      Ensure that this user name is in both of these authorization groups: ftl-dr and ftl-primary.

    This realm server is affiliated with the primary realm server at the main site. If a disaster disables the main site, administrators will restart this realm server as the new primary.
  2. Start (or restart) the primary realm server at the main site.
    Supply the command line parameter --drto with an argument that specifies the disaster recovery realm server.
    The primary server attempts to connect to the disaster recovery server. Upon connection, the disaster recovery server receives the currently deployed realm definition from the primary server.
  3. Start satellite and backup servers at the disaster recovery site.
    Arrange a family structure that is parallel to the structure at the main site.
    For task details, see the topics:
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