As Mark said, there are possibilities here and I have written them. We actually have code in a package for automating sync to non-production environments, from production, e.g. DEV, UAT, etc. However, I would caution use of these on production. We do not recommend this as more success validation is needed when dealing with production. A simple switchover event is one thing, but applying Microsoft patches or any other system changes should include testing and validation of at least critical call and routing functions.
An example might be that you patch one of the Switchover member servers, switch to it as active and test. Before patching the 2nd member server, you validate the patches and do not wholly commit the entire Switchover pair until fully validated. This logic could also be applied to peripheral servers, as available in multiples.
Good luck and happy patching! :-)
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Chris Mayo
Director, Technical Services
Altivon
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2019 10:06
From: Mark Tatera
Subject: Monitoring
Tarquin,
Many years ago the company I was at we had a similar requirement. We needed to reboot the CIC environment and no one liked getting up early to do it. We wrote a script in VB script that would check server status and initiate switchovers. The VB script used sendcustomnotification to check server status and initiate switchovers as needed along with monitoring the service statuses of the various CIC applications. I didn't write the script but I can tell you that what you are asking for is totally possible with a little scripting work and some handler customization.
Thanks,
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Mark Tatera
ConvergeOne
Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer. Any suggestions or programming changes I suggest come with no warranty and should be tried at your own risk.
Original Message:
Sent: 08-14-2019 21:14
From: Tarquin Bell
Subject: Monitoring
We are wanting to automate out windows patching process, I see a few items as being required:
- check server is in a good state (for media server, CIC server, CCS server & Marquee server)
- check switchover pair is in a good state (ready for switchover), both CIC & CCS switchover pairs
- check which server is active in switchover pair. (both CIC & CCS switchover pairs)
- initiate switchover (both CIC & CCS switchover pairs)
- check server has restarted successfully, for each server type
Some of these e.g. 5. above for CIC server could be done by checking for a recent occurrence of event 15008 in windows app log (event id 34000? on media server, on marquee server event id 0? but on CCS server???
Does anyone know of useful documentation around this?
Thanks
#PlatformAdministration
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Tarquin Bell
Precision Administration Services (Pty) Ltd
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