Components for Disaster Recovery

You need the following components to deploy CA ControlMinder in a disaster recovery configuration:

For the production environment:
- One installation of the Enterprise Management Server
- Central database (RDBMS)
- One or more installation of the Distribution Server.
For the disaster recovery environment:
- One installation of Enterprise Management Server
- Central database (RDBMS)
- One or more installation of the Distribution Server.

Consider the following points when planning a disaster recovery deployment:

You can restore a DMS only from backup files saved on the same platform, operating system, and version of CA ControlMinder. For example, you cannot restore a DMS using CA ControlMinder r12.5 from backup files of a DMS using CA ControlMinder r12.0 SP1.
You can set up clustering or other failover solution on your RDBMS.
You should synchronize the data in the RDBMS between the production and disaster recovery server.
You should synchronize Message Queue data stores between the production and disaster recovery servers.