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Set up Failover at Each Federation Manager System

To enable failover in a Federation Manager deployment, a primary and a secondary Federation Manager system must be installed and configured.

Important! For SSL-enabled failover environments, follow the instructions to enable SSL for a failover environment.

To support failover with a new Federation Manager installation

1. Install Federation Manager on each machine, specifying the same Federation Manager Administrator Password for each installation.

   Note: Federation Manager can be installed in standalone or proxy deployment mode, but the primary and secondary server must use the same mode.

2. Run the Federation Manager Configuration wizard on each system using the same database connection information on both machines.
3. Log in to the Federation Manager UI.
4. From the Infrastructure tab, select System Settings.

   The Configure System Settings dialog displays.

5. Change the Global Base URL 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 entities in any partnership is correct.

   If you change the value of this field, you must also specify the modified URL in the proxy engine's 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 and add the base URL to the hostnames setting using a fully qualified URL, as follows.

      <VirtualHost name="default">

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

      </VirtualHost>

      Note: You can specify multiple URLs for the hostnames setting, separating each entry with a comma.

Now that both Federation Manager systems are pointing to the same database, a proxy server or load balancer can be set up to failover from the primary system to the secondary.