VBrick Systems V4.4.3 manual Turning a Warm Backup Server into a Live Server

Turning a Warm Backup Server into a Live Server

A Portal Server can experience a hardware failure for a variety of reasons. If the hardware fails, you may be unable to communicate with the server via a web browser, the Remote Desktop utility, or any other means. Since there will be no web access, end users may get a "404 page not found," server timeout, or similar message. If this happens, remove the server from service and turn the warm backup into the primary server as explained here. This procedure only takes a minute or two. After fixing or replacing the failed primary server, you can then re-configure it as a warm backup or as the primary server.

Note In most cases, the changeover to a warm backup server will be totally transparent to end user (client) viewers. If they are watching a live or a stored VOD video when the changeover occurs, there will be no disruption to the video viewing.

TTo turn a warm backup server into a live server:

1.On the warm backup machine, open the Add or Remove Programs window on the

Control Panel and click Change/Remove on the VBrick Media Control Server Suite.

2.Then click Disable to disable the warm backup and make this machine your live server. You will no longer have a warm backup server.

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