Administering data centers

Maintaining a data center requires meticulous planning to prevent disruptions in your transactions that might lead to business escalations.

Bringing down a data center
To bring down a data center, you must change the replication setting to asynchronous (delayed), suspend the data center, bring down Sterling B2B Integrator, Global Mailbox Management node, Cassandra, ZooKeeper, shared storage, and WebSphere® MQ.
Bringing up a data center
To bring up a data center, you must bring up WebSphere MQ, shared storage, ZooKeeper, Cassandra, the Global Mailbox Management node, resume the data center, and then Sterling B2B Integrator.
Operating Global Mailbox during an unplanned data center outage
An unplanned data center outage might occur due to one of the component nodes going down, the required number of nodes not available, harmful geographic occurrences, and so on. Unplanned outage causes traffic disruption leading to data loss or a brief period of unavailability.