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Create an additional cluster node

After you answer questions and provide information about your environment, the wizard generates a custom configuration procedure. The following set of steps represents all possible configuration steps. The instructions that you generate might include or exclude specific steps based on your wizard selections.

After you create a static or dynamic cluster, you can create an additional horizontal cluster node to handle failover requests. When creating an additional horizontal cluster node on another server, run the Configuration Wizard from that server.

  1. Manual Step: Install portal binary files on the server where you plan to add a node to your cluster.

    • Condition

      None

    • ConfigEngine task

      None

  2. Manual Step: Install profile templates.

    • Condition

      None

    • ConfigEngine task

      None

  3. Manual Step: Copy the database drivers from the primary node to the additional node.

    • Condition

      None

    • ConfigEngine task

      None

  4. Manual Step: Verify that the portal node and deployment manager system clocks are within 5 minutes of each other.

    • Condition

      Remote deployment manager

    • ConfigEngine task

      None

  5. Create the profile for the secondary portal node.

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  6. Federate the node. This node then becomes a managed node in the deployment manager cell.

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      add-node

  7. Configure the dynamic cluster node. Add a nodegroup and add nodes to the nodegroup.

    • Condition

      Dynamic cluster

    • ConfigEngine task

      dynamic-cluster-create-nodegroup

      dynamic-cluster-add-node-to-nodegroup

  8. Add a secondary node to the cluster.

    • Condition

      Static cluster

    • ConfigEngine task

      cluster-node-config-cluster-setup-additional

  9. Add a secondary node to the cluster.

    • Condition

      Dynamic cluster

    • ConfigEngine task

      dynamic-cluster-setup-additional

  10. Start the portal server.

    • Condition

      None

    • ConfigEngine task

      start-portal-server

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