Starting up after failover

Depending on whether you're able to correctly set up dynamic redirects for the nodes, you start up the newly active system automatically or manually.

Starting up automatically

If you have correctly set up the dynamic redirects, as described in Configuring Jive for high-availability, after a failover, you start up the new web application nodes by running the jive start command on each enabled web app node in the new system. Doing this starts up all of the other nodes and services in the new configuration.

Starting up manually

If, for whatever reasons, you are unable to set up dynamic redirects, then, in the event of a failure, you would need to manually do the following in the passive-now-active data center before starting it up:
  1. On the web application nodes, edit the jive_startup.xml file to point to the new data center as described in Configuring Web Application servers for high-availability.
  2. On the core application database nodes, edit the Activity Engine database property (jive.eae.db.url) in the jiveProperty table to point to the new Activity Engine database.

    For a connection string configuration example, see Configuring Activity Engine database for high-availability.

  3. On the core application database nodes, edit the Analytics database property (__jive.analytics.database.serverURL) in the jiveProperty table to point to the new Analytics database.

    For a connection string configuration example, see Configuring Analytics database for high-availability.

After you have manually performed the above tasks, start up the new web application nodes by running the jive start command on each enabled web app node. Doing this starts up all of the other nodes and services in the newly active configuration.