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What to do next
Install the Active Manager Service.
Install the Active Manager Service
The active Manager Service is a Windows service that coordinates communication between IaaS
Distributed Execution Managers, the database, agents, proxy agents, and SMTP.
Unless you enable automatic Manager Service failover, your IaaS deployment requires that only one
Windows machine actively run the Manager Service at a time. Backup machines must have the service
stopped and configured to start manually.
See About Automatic Manager Service Failover.
Prerequisites
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If you already installed other IaaS components, know the database passphrase that you created.
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(Optional) If you want to install the Manager Service in a Website other than the default Website, first
create a Website in Internet Information Services.
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Verify that you have a certificate from a certificate authority imported into IIS and that the root
certificate or certificate authority is trusted. All components under the load balancer must have the
same certificate.
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Verify that the Website load balancer is configured and that the timeout value for the load balancer is
set to a minimum of 180 seconds.
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Install an IaaS Website Component and Model Manager Data.
Procedure
1 If using a load balancer, disable the other nodes under the load balancer, and verify that traffic is
directed to the node that you want.
In addition, disable load balancer health checks until all vRealize Automation components are
installed and configured.
2 Right-click the [e-mail] setup file and select
Run as administrator.
3 Accept the license agreement and click Next.
Installing vRealize Automation
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