High availability FileNet P8 Content Search Engine, Version 5.0.+            Operating systems:  Windows

Completing IBM Legacy Content Search Engine installation in a highly available environment (Windows®)

In a highly available environment, you need to perform additional post-installation steps after installing IBM® Legacy Content Search Engine.

High availability clustered server environments Important: If you are configuring a cluster, do not start and stop Windows Services on individual nodes directly. Configure the cluster software to manage the Windows Services, then start and stop the Windows Services using the cluster software.

To complete the IBM Legacy Content Search Engine installation in a highly available environment:

  1. Configure local files to point to the cluster address.
    After the installation has been completed on all nodes, the following files will contain local host names and must be edited to have the local node names changed to the cluster virtual host name:
    • verity_install_path/_cseuninst/installvariables.properties
    • verity_install_path/config.vcnf
    • verity_install_path/data/docs/WEB-INF/web.xml
    • verity_install_path/k2/common/base.xml
    • verity_install_path/k2/common/verity.cfg
    • verity_install_path/data/host/admin/adminN.xml

      Where the value of N is stored in verity_install_path/data/admin/admin.dat.

  2. Configure the Microsoft® Cluster Server (MSCS) IBM Legacy Content Search Engine Resource Group.
    After installing IBM Legacy Content Search Engine on your cluster, you must configure the following cluster resources. These should all be placed in the same Resource or Service group so that they fail over together:
    • Network name
    • Binary File Share
    • Temporary File Share (if local to the cluster rather than mounted from a remote highly-available storage location)
    • Collections File Share

      Follow the instructions in Creating a IBM Legacy Content Search Engine collections directory to create a temporary directory and to create a collections directory.

    • IBM Legacy Content Search Engine services:
      • Verity K2 Administration Server (required)
      • Verity K2 Administration Web Server (optional)
  3. Add the following resource dependencies:
    Collections File Share
    Network name
    Collections mount point
    K2 Administration Server / Administration Web Server
    Binary and temporary file shares (if these are clustered resources. If they are mounted from a remote highly available location, this is not necessary)
    Collections File Share
    Network Name


Feedback

Last updated: November 2010


© Copyright IBM Corporation 2010.
This information center is powered by Eclipse technology. (http://www.eclipse.org)