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Setting up Failover when Elastic is installed on a DMA

Solved1.35K views29th April 2021database Elastic Elasticsearch Failover
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Alexander Gorbunov [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]988 28th April 2021 0 Comments

Hi Dojo,

We have a DMA where Elasticsearch has been already installed, but we don’t use it – we don’t have SRM or Jobs, and we haven’t enabled indexing for alarms.

Now we need to create a failover pair with this DMA. I’ve read that Elastic doesn’t work well in a 1+1 configuration, so what should we do to ensure a stable failover setup?
I’ve seen this question on Dojo: Elasticsearch failover with SRM – DataMiner Dojo
The difference in our case is that we don’t need Elastic for any application, and the third server is not a feasible option. I would simply disable Elastic, but I’m not sure if this can be done.

Thanks.

Alexander Gorbunov [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 29th April 2021

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Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst]18.98K Posted 29th April 2021 0 Comments

Hi Alexander,

Just to give more details about how to edit the DB.xml file. You could disable Elastic by removing (or commenting) the Database tag that has the attribute type set to Elasticsearch:

<DataBase active=”true” search=”true” type=”Elasticsearch“>
<DBServer>IP_Address_Elastic_Node(s)</DBServer>
<UID>UID</UID>
<PWD>Password</PWD>
</DataBase>

After performing these changes, you will need to restart the agent. Once the DMA is back online, you probably will see the following alarms:

These alarms are expected since the agent will still look for a Elasticsearch DB (due to the license installed on the agent)

Alexander Gorbunov [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 29th April 2021
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Ive Herreman [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]13.59K Posted 28th April 2021 1 Comment

Hi Alexander,

What DataMiner version are you running?
You can disable elastic by removing its configuration from the db.xml file.

Alexander Gorbunov [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 28th April 2021
Alexander Gorbunov [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented 28th April 2021

Hi Ive, we’re on version 10.1-CU1.

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