Failover Server - HP SIM 4.2

[Bill_241]

Hi,

I have three servers in my SIM architecture, production, test and failover.

I'm hoping to find out what the easiest way to get my failover server running in the event of a hardware on my production server.

This is what I have done so far...

1) Built identical hardware (Proliant BL 20p) for each server.

2) Installed W2000 SP4 on each, same security updates, etc.

3) Installed HP SIM 4.2 and PMP 3 on each.

4) MSDE is being used on each server.

5) My production server is currently running SIM in production. My failover server is essentially "waiting to take over".

If my production server fails and I decide to go to the failover server, could I just take a backed up copy of the database and "config" directory and apply it to my failover server?
I notice that my Insight database files have different number tacked on to the end. Is this significant?

Any advice on how all you experts are achieving a failover server welcome!

Thank you!

[Brian Kelly_4]

That makes two of us interested.

[ms.tim]

don't know for MSDE but it's peace of cake with SQL
I have 2 CMS servers (production, test)
security is set to trust by certificates so when configuring managed nodes I add certificates from both CMS servers and vice-versa so when failover ocures I have no security issues.
next thing is database.
I am planning in configuring log shipping between those SQL servers with HP SIM services down on failover server (database locks...).

This is logical if you know that SIM is half cluster-aware.
In cluster configuration you have to install CMS on both (or more) nodes but you also need to put database on shared storage.
with log shipping you are just replicating data between databases.

I haven't yet configured log shipping but in next few days I'll finally do it.
Results will be of course posted here.

hope this thoughts helped you a bit.
c ya