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Agent Server Member Outage

When a member running an Agent server is down, the CA VM:Director server continues to process commands and to update the Object Directory. These changes are resynchronized when the downed Agent server comes back up.

Problems can arise when you make directory changes to user IDs that are XAUTOLOGged during the system IPL before the CA VM:Director server comes up. These user IDs may include OPERATOR, AUTOLOG1, DISKACNT, EREP, OPERSYMP, and VMDIRECT. These problems arise because the Object Directory still has the contents as they existed before the Agent server member was taken down. To recover successfully, perform the following steps before you perform the IPL of the downed member:

1. Obtain a copy of the USER DIRECT file, which contains the latest set of changes. To do so, execute the VMXBKP01 utility on one of the operational member systems.
2. Attach the volume containing the Object Directory for the member that is down. To rewrite the Object Directory on the downed member, execute the DIRECTXA utility.
3. Bring up the member and start CA VM:Director normally.