Federation Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide › Migrate to Federation Manager r12.5 › How to Migrate a Failover Deployment › Migrating an r12 Failover Deployment to r12.5

Migrating an r12 Failover Deployment to r12.5

You can migrate an existing r12.x failover deployment to an r12.5 Federation Manager deployment.

To migrate a failover configuration

1. Install r12.5 onto each machine in your deployment.
2. Run the configuration wizard on the first upgraded machine and enter the same information that was used for any previous configurations.

   To determine the existing configuration settings, go to the following file on the r12.x system: federation_mgr_home\install_config_info\ca-Federation-Config.properties.

3. Run the r12.5 configuration wizard on the second machine. Enter the following information:
   1. Database information from the first machine.
   2. All other entries from the ca-Federation-Config.properties file.
4. Log in to the Federation Manager UI.
5. From the Infrastructure tab, select System Settings.

   The Configure System Settings dialog displays.

6. Change the Global Base URL in the UI to include the host and port of the Proxy Server or load balancer in your federated network. Setting this URL properly ensures that the default URL for all metadata used to create partnerships is correct.
7. Change the default base URL for the proxy engine to include the host and port of the Proxy Server or load balancer in your federated network. Setting this URL properly ensures that the default URL for all metadata used to create partnerships is correct.

   The base URL is defined in the server.conf file.

   To modify the server.conf file

   1. Navigate to federation_mgr_home/secure-proxy/proxy-engine/conf.
   2. Open the server.conf file in an editor.
   3. Go to the # Default Virtual Host section.
   4. Add the base URL to the hostnames setting using fully qualified host names, as follows:

      <VirtualHost name="default">

      hostnames="defaultbaseurl.ca.com:80, newbaseurl.ca.com:80"

      </VirtualHost>

      Note: Specify multiple host_name:port entries for the hostnames setting, separating each entry with a comma.

8. If you have enabled SSL for failover on an r12x system, you have to migrate the SSL configuration to the r12.5 primary and secondary system, as instructed in the SSL migration steps.

Both Federation Manager systems are now pointing to the same database server and can be configured for failover from a proxy server or load balancer.