DX UIM High Availability (HA) Guide for v23.4 and higher

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• Unified Infrastructure Management for Mainframe
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

DX UIM High Availability (HA) Guide.

See pdf attached to this KB Article.

Here is the updated, fully revamped DX Infrastructure Availability-HA Guide for UIM 23.4 CU3. The guide covers the following areas of implementing high availability in UIM:

 

• Secondary (HA) hub Installation/Upgrade
• Secondary Admin console setup
• Message queue setup
• Message queue pairing and naming
• Queue and probe enabling/disabling
• Hub installation
• HA hub troubleshooting
• Probe configuration
• Key Nas options such as forwarding and replication
• Testing of failover and failback
• HA Limitations
• HA Troubleshooting
• spectrumgtw failover tips
• How to troubleshoot hub activity pre-failover, during failover and post-failover
• General Best Practices for HA

Environment

• DX Unified Infrastructure Manager v20.4x
• DX UIM Infrastructure Observability (UIM) 23.4.x or higher

Cause

• HA guidance

Resolution

• See the PDF document attached to this KB Article

Additional Information

• HA (High Availability) High Availability (broadcom.com)
  
  
• Alternatives for High Availability (other options): Installing in an Active/Passive Microsoft Cluster (broadcom.com)