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Redundant Provisioning Directories

To support failover, you can install primary and alternate Provisioning Directories. For example, you may have two systems, one with the Provisioning Server on it and a second system with the primary Provisioning Directory. A third system has the alternate Provisioning Directory. If the primary Provisioning Directory fails, the alternate Provisioning Directory is assigned automatically.

You install alternate Provisioning Directories if they were not configured during the installation.

Follow these steps:

1. Install the primary Provisioning Directory using the Provisioning Directory installer from where you unpacked the install package.
   • Windows:

     Unpacked-Install-Package\Provisioning\Provisioning Directory\setup.exe
     

   • UNIX:

     Unpacked-Install-Package/Provisioning/ProvisioningDirectory/setup
     

   If you have already installed a primary Provisioning Directory during the installation, you can omit step 1.

2. Perform the prerequisite configuration for the new Provisioning Directories.
3. Install one or more alternate Provisioning Directories.