You are viewing limited content. For full access, please sign in.

Question

Question

LFDS Failover Documentation

Directory Server
Updated September 10, 2019
asked on August 26, 2019

When going through the KB Article or Failover Clustering with Laserfiche white paper it does not say at which point we are to configure LFDS. It states to install LFDS on all nodes once the cluster is created, but doesn't say when to actually configure LFDS. At what point do we configure LFDS when setting it up in a failover environment?

2 0

Answer

SELECTED ANSWER
replied on August 26, 2019

You can configure LFDS after the cluster is up and running on the Windows side. Simply installing LFDS will allow you to set up the cluster in Windows Failover Cluster Manager.

1 0
View 10 previous replies
replied on August 26, 2019

Could the documentation be updated to specify at what point the initial configuration can be completed?

0 0
replied on August 26, 2019

Also, after running through the configuration do we leave both LFDS services up and running or do we need to shut one down?

0 0
replied on August 27, 2019

I'll talk to our User Education team and see if we can clarify the documentation. And once the LFDS Resource in your cluster role is brought online, only one LFDS service will be kept running at a time

0 0
replied on August 27, 2019

Do we need to manually stop one of the services or does the cluster take care of that automatically?

0 0
replied on August 27, 2019

I'm having some issues with my cluster setup at the moment so I'm not positive. What you can do is take the Laserfiche Directory Service Resource offline, make sure the LFDS services on both machines are stopped, then bring the resource back online and it should only start one of the LFDS services.

0 0
replied on August 27, 2019

Ok, thank you. That might be something to include in the failover documentation as well.

1 0
replied on August 27, 2019
0 0
replied on August 27, 2019

Much appreciated!

1 0
replied on August 27, 2019

Can the PDF also be updated?

0 0
replied on August 28, 2019
1 0
replied on September 6, 2019

There is something else in the KB article that I am not finding when looking at the Failover Cluster Manager on a 2019 Server. It states: "Back in the Failover Cluster Manager, right-click on the newly created role and view the Properties.
On the General tab, in the Preferred Owners section, select all the nodes.
On the Failover tab, adjust failover settings as appropriate."

When I look at the General tab I do not see Preferred Owners section. This is what I see:

There also is not a failover tab.

replied on September 6, 2019

On the KB article it states to take note of the IP address listed on the Dependencies tab as well as the Resource name, but it never says why. Are we supposed to do something with them?

1 0
replied on September 10, 2019

The IP address is the address of the LFDS cluster that you will be navigating to, and the resource name is the friendly name of the LFDS cluster you will be navigating to. So if my IP is 1.2.3.4 and my resource name is myRole, I can navigate to LFDS using "1.2.3.4/LFDS/" or "myRole.domain/LFDS/"

0 0
replied on September 10, 2019

Can the documentation be updated with that please?

1 0

Replies

You are not allowed to reply in this post.
You are not allowed to follow up in this post.

Sign in to reply to this post.

Details
Related Posts
Loading ...