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  • 1.  webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Thu May 09, 2013 04:45 PM

    Hi Experts,

    Good evening. I assume many of us have an idea about disaster recovery and I need suggestions for implementing one. My client have a production Env(Clustered) and a DR env(non clustered). While simulating, they have simply copied the exact DB of IS and MWS and replicated to DR database. I faced some problems due to MWS cluster.xml and host specific config files. But Integration Server didn’t face any problem.
    Does anyone has best practices of doing it, also broker data. Is it possible to import storage files or such data from one server to another independent server. Was looking into it for quite a while, but didn’t get much info.

    Any suggestions are well appreciated.

    Regards,
    Niteesh


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  • 2.  RE: webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Fri December 05, 2014 08:08 AM

    Hi,
    Does any body having best practice on DR? Or SAG recommending some thing…?

    Pls share …


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  • 3.  RE: webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Fri December 05, 2014 08:31 AM

    We have build up our DR environment recently.

    We have 2 identical, clustered environments and network based storage.

    The Storage and the DB (Oracle Dataguard) are permanently replicated from the main environment to the fail-over environment.

    For the case that the main environment will be unavailable, the fail-over environment starts the services and instances based on the latest replicated storage data and DB data using the same logical IP-Adresses and DNS-Aliases as the original environment.

    Regards,
    Holger


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  • 4.  RE: webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Thu July 13, 2017 06:53 PM

    Hi Holger
    How do you manage to keep same logical IP-Addresses as its not possible to have same IP addresses among different data centers. I am trying to set up My webMethods DR and we only have task engine running on My webMethods which works as a back end workflow engine without business users logging in to My webMethods

    Regards
    Anuj


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  • 5.  RE: webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Fri July 14, 2017 10:50 AM

    Hi Anuj,

    the logical IP-Adresses are assigned to services and are only available on the side where the service is started.

    The DataCenter is spanning over two datacenters sharing the same IP adresses.

    Regards,
    Holger


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  • 6.  RE: webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Fri July 14, 2017 01:15 PM

    Hi Holger
    Thanks for your reply. When you say logical IP address is assigned to services, you are referring to which services ? Can you elaborate more on “The DataCenter is spanning over two datacenters sharing the same IP adresses.”

    Regards
    Anuj


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  • 7.  RE: webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Mon July 17, 2017 08:16 AM

    Hi Anuj,

    servive in this case means a resource service as of Oracle Solaris Cluster control, bundling certain resource groups which contain mounted filesystems, ip adresses and application config data.

    So when starting such service on either side of the DR DataCenter, the application will always look fron outside for our clients when they connect to it.
    Only difference is when we connect to our partners they will see that we are sending from a different IP adress then before.

    The DR DataCenter is spanning over two DataCenter locations which are several kilometers apart from each other.
    My company names these Twin-Core DataCenters as these look like one big DataCenter from a higer point of view.

    Regards,
    Holger


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  • 8.  RE: webMethods Database replication for Disaster Ricovery

    Posted Tue July 18, 2017 05:50 PM

    Hi Holger
    Thanks for your reply. We are a Windows shop so don’t have the liberty of using Oracle Solaris Cluster control. I have not seen any limitation regarding IP address so was thinking to replicate the file system and database schema at the same time into DR environment at regular intervals. Basically DR environment would be down like a traditional DR and then when DR is initiated following steps would be executed

    1. DNS is switched between main environment and DR environment
    2. db.xml is restored from DR environment as DR database credentials would be different
    3. My webMethods server is then brought up

    Regards
    Anuj


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