Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Installation Guide
switchover solution rather than a failover solution.
One Cisco TMS server is active at any given time with this redundancy model. The hot standby server must be kept up to
date with security patches and other upgrades so that it is ready for activation within a few minutes if the primary server
fails.
date with security patches and other upgrades so that it is ready for activation within a few minutes if the primary server
fails.
Note that the hot standby redundancy model requires the tmsng database to be located on an external SQL server, and
that the two Cisco TMS servers must be in the same Windows domain.
that the two Cisco TMS servers must be in the same Windows domain.
In this deployment, do not enable redundancy using General Settings > Enable TMS Redundancy.
In the instructions below the following examples are used:
Server
DNS Name
IP Address
Primary Cisco TMS Server (tms01)
tms01.example.com
10.0.0.10
Secondary Cisco TMS Server (tms02)
tms02.example.com
10.0.0.11
The examples assume that you use IPv4. If you also use IPv6, change the IPv6 addresses accordingly.
Setting up the Primary Cisco TMS Server
Prior to installing Cisco TMS:
1.
Set up an SQL server instance on an external server.
2.
Set up a DNS record: tms.example.com pointing to the IP address of the primary server tms01 (10.0.0.10).
Installing Cisco TMS:
1.
, pointing Cisco TMS to the external database server you used in Step 1 above.
2.
Make a note of the encryption key generated during the installation.
3.
When enabling HTTPS during installation, use a certificate issued to tms.example.com.
4.
Log in to the Cisco TMS web application to verify that it works correctly.
All users and managed systems must use tms.example.com when connecting to Cisco TMS. The server's own hostname
(tms01.example.com) must not be used.
(tms01.example.com) must not be used.
After verifying that the installation of Cisco TMS was successful:
1.
In Cisco TMS go to Administrative Tools > Configuration > Network Settings.
2.
Enter
tms.example.com in the TMS Server Fully Qualified Hostname and TMS Server Address (Fully Qualified
Hostname or IPv4 Address) fields.
Do not use local user accounts when logging in to Cisco TMS. All user accounts must be domain accounts, so that they
are available if you have to swap to the secondary server, tms02.
are available if you have to swap to the secondary server, tms02.
Setting up the Secondary Cisco TMS Server
1.
Check that the operating system including service pack level on tms02 is exactly the same as on tms01.
2.
Check that the servers are both configured with the same time zone; failure to do this will mean that the start and
end times of scheduled conferences are incorrect in the case of a switchover.
end times of scheduled conferences are incorrect in the case of a switchover.
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Setting up a Redundant Deployment