High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Configure IBM® Security Identity Manager for hot-standby applications.

IBM Security Identity Manager allows separate nodes of a cluster to function as hot-standby nodes. Typically the nodes are geographically separate for a disaster recovery application.

You also use hot-standby nodes for testing applications on the node without interfering with other nodes.

Implementation of this capability is discussed on the IBM developerWorks site at Setting up HA and DR environments for ITIM 5.x. You can also use the setup instructions with IBM Security Identity Manager Version 6 and Version 7.0 VA.

The enroleStartup.properties file contains properties to support this capability. See the Reference > Supplemental property files for enroleStartup.properties. Note the following changes for version 6.0.0.4:
  • The enroleStartup.properties file can be modified starting in this release. It was not modifiable in previous releases.
  • The following new and changed properties play a role in High Availability and Disaster Recovery applications:
    enrole.startup.MessageListeners.attributes
    enrole.appServer.standby
    enrole.appServer.standby.inactiveMessageListeners
    enrole.appServer.standby.inactiveStartupInitializer