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Additional Disaster Recovery Prerequisites

You upgrade systems at the Disaster Recovery (DR) site while the Primary site remains active.

• When you start the DR site upgrade, verify that database and systems at the DR site are in standby mode.
• Disable all traffic to the Secure Proxy Server.

Policy Server and CSP console Prerequisites

1. Perform all steps in the prerequisite procedure.
2. Verify that the following properties are defined as follows in /tmp/properties.sh.

   _db_server=Primary-Database-Hostname; export _db_server
   _database_name=Primary-Database-Name; export _database_name
   _ps_ha_hosts=<SMPS LB VIP>; export _ps_ha_hosts
   

3. Add the following property if you are using this procedure to upgrade the CSP console and using JBOSS EAP:

   JBOSS_EAP_PATCH=; export JBOSS_EAP_PATCH
   

4. Verify that the following properties are set to reference the Primary database information in the following file:

   /opt/CA/siteminder/install_config_info/ca-ps-installer.properties

   • DEFAULT_RDB_DBSERVER=Primary-Database-Hostname
   • DEFAULT_RDB_DBNAME=Primary-Database-Name

Additional CSP console Prerequisites

1. Copy the following kits to the /root directory.

   JBPAPP-8693.zip
   

2. Verify that the following properties are in the /tmp/properties.sh file.

   _ps_ha_hosts=<SMPS LB VIP>; export _ps_ha_hosts
   

3. Add the following property to the /tmp/properties.sh file.

   JBOSS_EAP_PATCH="/root/JBPAPP-8693.zip"; export JBOSS_EAP_PATCH
   

4. Edit the following file to point to HostName and ServiceName of the primary database.

   /opt/CA/siteminder/db/system_odbc.ini
   

Additional Policy Server Prerequisites

1. Verify that the following properties are set to reference the Primary database information in the following file:

   /opt/CA/AdvancedAuth/Uninstall_Advanced Authentication Server/installvariables.properties

   TWS_IMDB_HOST=Primary-Database-Hostname
   TWS_IMDB_DBNAME=Primary-Database-Name
   ARCOT_PRIMARY_HOST_NAME=Primary-Database-Hostname
   ARCOT_PRIMARYDB_URL=jdbc\:oracle\:thin\:@//Primary-Database-Hostname\:1521/Primary-Database-Name
   ARCOT_PRIMARY_SERVICE_NAME=Primary-Database-Name
   

2. Verify that the following properties are set to reference the Primary database info in the following file:

   /opt/CA/AdvancedAuth/Uninstall_Arcot WebFort/installvariables.properties

   TWS_IMDB_HOST=Primary-Database-Hostname
   TWS_IMDB_DBNAME=Primary-Database-Name
   ARCOT_PRIMARY_SERVICE_NAME=Primary-Database-Name
   

3. Edit the following files to point to the primary database:
   • /opt/CA/AdvancedAuth/conf/arcotcommon.ini
   • /opt/CA/AdvancedAuth/Tomcat/conf/context.xml
   • /opt/CA/AdvancedAuth/Tomcat/webapps/tenant-services/META-INF/context.xml
   • /opt/CA/AdvancedAuth/odbc32v70wf/odbc.ini
   • /opt/CA/siteminder/db/system_odbc.ini
4. Set DR mode to live.

   cd /opt/CA/saas/repo/application
   ./DR_mode.sh mode=live