Best Practices for Implementing Unicenter Asset Portfolio Management r11.2 in an HA MSCS Environment -Part I: Installing UAPM Optional Components Draft

Best Practices for Implementing Unicenter

Asset Portfolio Management r11.2 in an HA MSCS Environment

- Part I: Installing UAPM Optional Components

Draft – Last Revised August 7th 2006

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Agenda

- This presentation focuses on the procedures for installing Unicenter Asset Management Portfolio (UAPM) r11.2 Optional Components in a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) environment


Disclaimer

- Although this presentation focuses on 2 node clusters, MSCS supports clusters with more than 2 server nodes. The concepts that apply to 2 node clusters, however, also apply to multiple server node clusters.

- These procedures are specific to MS-SQL 2000. The procedures for MS-SQL 2005 should be similar to SQL 2000 but are not covered in this document

- Although UAPM r11.2 also supports Oracle and Ingres MDBs, the procedures in this document only pertain to SQL-based MDBs and should not be used for Oracle or Ingres MDBs!

Preparing UAPM Optional Components for MSCS


UAPM – SQL MDB

- UAPM release 11.2 supports

- SQL MDB

- Ingres MDB

- Oracle MDB

- The procedure documented here only applies to SQL MDB and should not be used to install HA Ingres or Oracle MDB.


SQL Server Requirements

- To install an HA SQL MDB, you must have an HA SQL Server which has its own cluster resource group.

- If you do not want to install an HA MDB you should refer to the UAPM documentation as there should not be any additional considerations for installing a non-HA MDB in MSCS environment.


SQL Cluster Group

The SQL Cluster Group has only one shared drive (H:) – and this is where the MDB will be created.

•SQL Instance name is SQLINSTA

•SQL VNode is I14YCLUSTSQL


Application Cluster Group

Installing UAPM Optional Components on NodeA


Install


Install UAPM Products


SQL MDB


SQL Server Info

Provide SQL Virtual Node name and SQL instance name


Required SQL Server Information

- The install process does not need to know the SQL Cluster Group name.

- MDB is created on the default MSSQL shared drive associated with SQL Instance (the “H:” drive in this example)

- If default SQL instance is created instead of named SQL instance you should only specify the SQL VNode name


UAPM SQL Users

There are 3 SQL users created by the install process


Install Summary


Creating MDB


Install Log


UAPM - SQL Users

This shows UAPM SQL users and MDB created


MDB

This shows MDB created on the shared drive


Reboot

Installing UAPM Optional Components on NodeB


Move SQL Group

- Move SQL Group to NodeB

- Repeat the install process as described for NodeA.

- Install process will not create MDB as it was already created by NodeA

- The UAPM SQL user’s password must be same as specified during install on NodeA

- The main reason for installing on NodeB is to create the required registry entries.


HA MDB

- Installation is now setup to connect to an HA MDB

- Test configuration by moving group and verify that your UAPM web clients function correctly when a failover occurs

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