Troubleshooting guide

7 — 5620 SAM system redundancy
Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager 7-27
5620 SAM
System Administrator Guide
4 Click Re-Instantiate Standby, and click Yes. The database reinstantiation begins.
The client GUI status bar and the System Information form display the
reinstantiation status. The Standby Re-instantiation State changes from In
Progress to Success when reinstantiation is complete. The Last Attempted Standby
Re-instantiation Time displays the start time of the current reinstantiation.
5 Close the form when the reinstantiation is complete.
Procedure 7-9 To reinstantiate a redundant database using a CLI
script
Perform this procedure to re-establish redundancy after a database failover or similar
maintenance activity. This procedure reinstantiates the former primary database as
the new standby database. Before you start, the following conditions must be true:
• The primary database proxy and the standby database proxy are in contact
with the 5620 SAM server.
• The database listener is operating.
1 Log in to the primary main server station as the samadmin user.
2 Open a console window.
3 Navigate to the 5620 SAM server binary directory, typically
/opt/5620sam/server/nms/bin.
4 Enter the following at the CLI prompt:
bash$ ./reinstantiatedb.bash -u username -p password ↵
where
username is the user name of a 5620 SAM client account with the required privilege level and
scope of command
password is the password for the user account
The script displays the following confirmation message:
This action will rebuild the standby database.
Do you want to proceed? (YES/no) :
5 Enter the following case-sensitive text at the prompt to begin reinstantiation:
YES ↵
The 5620 SAM server begins to reinstantiate the former primary database as the
standby database. Progress is indicated by a rolling display of dots in the console
window. Database reinstantiation is complete when the CLI prompt reappears.
6 Close the console window when the reinstantiation is complete.
Release 12.0 R6 | November 2014 | 3HE 08861 AAAF TQZZA Edition 01