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Configurations

You can add or modify the processes and daemons to enhance the performance of the CA SDM servers. You can configure object managers, web engines, web directors, and other processes for the CA SDM servers in your environment. You can add the processes across several servers to increase volume, performance, and enhance security.

Important! (Recommended) Ensure that both background server and all other standby servers have similar configuration. This process ensures that during a failover when a standby server becomes the new background server, it can function exactly like the old background server.

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Object Managers

Web Engines or Web Directors

Aliases

Additional Processes

Create a Process Configuration

You can create a process configuration for your CA SDM installation, or can modify an existing configuration to suit your requirement.

Consider the following points while creating or modifying a process configuration:

• If you want to modify a process configuration, we recommend you to create a new one or copy the existing configuration and then modify it. This process allows you to revert to the previous configuration, if necessary.
• In conventional configuration, you create configuration only for a primary server and not for secondary servers. All secondary server configuration details must be included within the configuration created for the primary server. For example, to add a webengine with the secondary server hostname details, open the configuration for the primary server and add the necessary details.
• For an advanced availability configuration type, you can create configurations only for the specific server. Make sure that you create the same configuration for the background server and standby server.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Systems, Configurations on the Administration tab.

   The Configurations List page opens.

2. Click Create New to add a server configuration.

   The Create New Configuration page opens.

3. Complete the following fields:

   Important! Enter only English characters for all the input fields for any localized language.

   Configuration Name

   Specifies the name that you want to assign to the configuration you create.

   Advanced Availability

   Indicates whether the configuration is created for conventional configuration or for the advanced availability configuration type. Select Yes if the configuration is valid for advanced availability configuration type.

   Note: Configurations that are created for one configuration type (advanced availability or conventional) cannot be implemented for the other configuration type.

   Host Name

   Specifies the host name for the configuration. The host name is taken from the servers records configured under the Servers page. You can click the Search button to look up for the servers added to your CA SDM installation.

   Record Status

   Specifies if the server configuration record is active.

   Current Configuration

   Indicates that the configuration is applied on the selected CA SDM server. This field is read-only and is updated based on the configuration you select while executing server configuration utility (pdm_configure).

4. Click Save.

   The configuration is saved. New tabs are enabled on the page to add object managers, web engines, web directors, and other processes.

   Note: The host name and the advanced availability fields become read-only once you have saved the configuration.

   Click Edit in List on the Configuration List page to modify the record status of a process configuration.

   Note: You cannot modify the record status if the current configuration of a selected server is in use.