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At this point, all devices and sessions are running on the survivor—that is, master
computer—even the ones that normally run on the other, revived server. These devices,
utility programs, and sessions eventually need to run in their normal place on the revived
server.
Schedule a time to log the users off and stop the servers and devices. At that time, run
the following commands on the survivor:
NRCS-A# offline
NRCS-A# logout all
NRCS-A# stop all
8. Reconfigure the system (survivor).
The system is now running in a dual AB configuration. When you run the configure
command, the system will reconsult the /site/config file and divide responsibility for
which server will run the devices, half for server A and half for B:
NRCS-A# offline
NRCS-A# configure
NRCS-A# online
Wait for the system being configured messages to appear on both servers before moving
on to the next step.
9. Start up the revived server.
When you run startup on the revived server, the devices and utility programs (such as
action servers or txnet links) on that server are started and it is placed online:
NRCS-B# startup
10. Restart all of the survivor’s devices by typing restart all on the master computer.
The system is now running normally (dual) with all sessions and devices in their normal
places.
If server B was selected as the master database, it is now the master computer. Since
either server can run as master, nothing further needs to be done. If you want to make
server A the master computer again, perform a normal system shutdown, reboot and
startup, as described in iNEWS Newsroom Computer System Setup and Configuration
Manual.
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Wait for the diskcopy to complete before rebooting the system to make server A the
master computer again. Database corruption may result if the system is taken down
before the diskcopy completes. If the system loses power or must be rebooted; the
master computer that contains the full database must be brought up in a single server
configuration, and the disconnect recovery procedure restarted again.