Disaster Recovery Plan

[Former Member]

We're running xMII 11.5 SP3 in a three-tiered centralized server environment (Development, Staging and Production). We plan on having a project up and running in production by October 1. Before we do so, however, we need to develop a disaster recovery plan in the event of a failure of our production server. Our staging server is in a different city and we plan on using it as our temporary production server.

Does anyone have any recommendations on putting together a disaster recovery plan for this scenario?

Thanks!

[Former Member]

Thanks, Sam!

[salvatore_castro]

No problem...happy to help

[salvatore_castro]

Dave,

Good to see you active on the forums, hope all is well...

As for disaster recovery the procedures will follow along similar to your roll out plan, where content is moved from Dev -> Staging -> Prod. The main difference will be that you will have to reconfigure the xMII system. In 11.5 this is all file based XML files in the following directories:

<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Illuminator\conf

<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Illuminator\sysconf

<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Illuminator\properties

<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Security\*

<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Xacute\Configuration

These are the main ones, there may be others depending on your development specifics.

Hope this helps.

-Sam

[Former Member]

Thanks, Sam! We're doing well. Hitesh is in Chicago this week for Introductory training, I'll join him next week for Advanced.

All of xMII (and nothing but xMII ) is on our server's 😧 drive so my DR plan was to delete everything off 😧 on our staging box and restore the latest 😧 backup of our production server onto staging. Our SQLServer team would do the same for the SQLServer databases. We would then repoint the production DNS name to the staging box and we'd be good to go.

I need to verify that we're not using any hardcoded server names in our data server setups for SQL Server databases stored locally on the server (ie., make sure I use 'localhost').

Are there any other hardcoded server names in XML files that I should be aware of?

Dave

[salvatore_castro]

Dave,

That's good to hear...

Yes there are, specifically the security server located in:

D:\Lighthammer\Illuminator\Conf\SystemConfig.xml

This setting specifies which security manager xMII should use for authentication, you will need to repoint this to the production machine.

-Sam