Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION REFERENCE 10.3 16-04-2010 System Administration Manual

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Disaster Recovery11123novdocx (en) 16 April 201011Disaster RecoveryThe following sections explain the disaster recovery mechanisms available in Novell® ZENworks ®10 Configuration Management that help you protect the first Primary Server of a Management Zoneif an organizational risk assessment identifies a need for such steps: Section 11.1, “Replacing the First Primary Server with the Second Primary Server,” onpage 123 Section 11.2, “Replacing an Existing Primary Server with a New Primary Server,” on page 126 Section 11.3, “Re-Creating Certificates,” on page 12811.1 Replacing the First Primary Server with theSecond Primary ServerYou can replace the first Primary Server in your Management Zone with an existing second PrimaryServer or with a new server. If you choose to replace the first Primary Server with a new server thathas a different hostname and IP address, you must install ZENworks 10 Configuration Managementon the new server in the same Management Zone. Consequently, the new server becomes the secondPrimary Server.The first Primary Server and the second Primary Server must have the same version of theZENworks 10 Configuration Management installed.NOTE: This scenario has been tested on the following platform combinations: Windows Server* 2003 (32-bit) to Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) SUSE ® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 (32-bit) to SLES 10 (32-bit)It has not been tested with ZENworks Reporting Server.This scenario is not supported on Windows to Linux and vice-versa platform combinations.To replace the first Primary Server with the second Primary Server:1 Make sure that all the contents of the content-repo directory of the first Primary Server arereplicated to the second Primary Server.The content-repo directory is located in the ZENworks_installation_directory\work\directory on Windows and in the /var/opt/novell/zenworks/ directory on Linux.2 (Conditional) If the first Primary Server has add-on images:2a In ZENworks Control Center for the second Primary Server, click the Bundles tab, thenclick the Imaging bundle.The Summary tab is displayed.2b Click Edit next to Add-on Image File.The Bundle Add-on Image wizard is displayed.2c On the Add Image Server Address page, select the first Primary Server that is associatedwith the bundle, then click Remove.