You can store Workplace/Workplace XT settings in a shared configuration
directory for high availability environments. This directory can reside
on a shared device as needed.
- If you deploy your Workplace/Workplace XT Web application as a Windows service on WebSphere®, do not use mapped drives
to reference shared configuration folders. Instead, use a UNC share.
Note that UNC shares cannot be Windows administrative
shares such as \\host\c$.
- If the share is mountable the mount must be online when Workplace/Workplace XT is started and accessed.
- If the shared configuration directory is not accessible an error
page is returned when a user tries to access the Workplace/Workplace XT sign-in page.
- Aside from the shared configuration directory no other Application Engine/Workplace XT software has to reside
on shared storage.
- Overwriting of configuration files on subsequent installations.
- If you are performing an installation by using a shared configuration
directory be aware that all installations of Application Engine/Workplace XT will replace any files
that exist in the shared configuration directory.
- If an installation has been completed and settings such as the
bootstrap information have already been set then any subsequent installations
by using the same shared configuration directory will result in the
files being overwritten, losing any settings that have been made.
To
preserve the settings in the shared configuration directory you should
back up the files in the shared configuration directory and restore
them when you have completed the installation.
Remember: This
is not an issue for configurations where all Application Engine/Workplace XT installations are performed
at the same time, but for cases where the installer must be run again
(to add a node to the configuration for example).