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Testing the Complete Installation
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Testing the Complete Installation
After you complete all the previously described steps, you are now ready to test the installation.
Make yourself familiar with the Failover Cluster Manager and review the different
failover-related settings.
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If you want to test the Microsoft cluster failover process again, see “Testing the Cluster
Installation” on page 71.
To test the complete installation:
1. Bring the Interplay Engine online, as described in “Bringing the Interplay | Engine Online”
on page 105
.
2. Make sure you created a database (see
“Creating an Interplay | Production Database” on
page 107
).
You can use the default license for testing. Then install the permanent licenses, as described
in
“Installing a Permanent License” on page 109
3. Start Interplay Access and add some files to the database.
4. Start the second node, if it is not already running.
5. Initiate a failover by right-clicking Avid Workgroup Server and moving it to another node by
selecting “Move this server or application to another node.”
After the move is complete, all resources should remain online and the target node should be
the current owner.
You can also simulate a failure by right-clicking a resource and selecting More Actions >
Simulate failure of this resource.
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A failure of a resource does not necessarily initiate failover of the complete Avid Workgroup
Server application.
6. You might also want to experiment by terminating the Interplay Engine manually using the
Windows Task Manager (NxNServer.exe). This is also a good way to get familiar with the
failover settings which can be found in the Properties dialog box of the Avid Workgroup
Server and on the Policies tab in the Properties dialog box of the individual resources.
7. Look at the related settings of the Avid Workgroup Server. If you need to change any
configuration files, make sure that the Avid Workgroup Disk resource is online; the
configuration files can be found on the resource drive in the Workgroup_Data folder.