I would suggest use of server alias. Choose this alias to be the same as the server name of the currently up and running server, and to use that same alias as the name of the server group. This will minimize your time spent on instructing users regarding the change of the server name..
There is more than 1 supported method of doing what you want to do.. depends on what you are more comfortable with... If on UNIX I personally prefer the method where you create your armonitor.conf file in its expected path before installation. I was given this method by an individual whose knowledge I can trust from Remedy Support.. Joe ----- Original Message ---- From: "Soria, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:09:07 AM Subject: Bringing Second App Server Online ** We are planning to bring up our second application server in the next few days. We will have an f5 load balancer in front of the app servers. Does anyone have experience running in a single application server environment Â…then moving to a multiple application server environment? I want to know how much downtime was involved as well as what issues you ran into while performing the modification. I have read over the documentation from BMC regarding this, and am getting different stories on how to accomplish this, also attempted to contact BMC support, and the two people I talked to provided no insight, they simply referred me to the same document. We have both the mid-tier and application running on the same box. Sun Solaris 9, ARS 6.3. Joe Soria ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
