A description of how to set up Container and Manager high availability features. The steps in this section require you to modify the c8-server.conf configuration file.
The following sections provide you with instructions for setting up Container and Manager High Availability features. Directory and file names appear in Microsoft Windows format. If you are running Sybase CEP Engine on a UNIX-like operating system, change file name and directory format accordingly.
Many of the steps in this section involve changes to the c8-server.conf configuration files of the Sybase CEP Servers included in your cluster. See "Introduction to Configuring Sybase CEP Engine" for the default location of this file within each Sybase CEP Server's installation directory.
This chapter describes all the preferences that you must set to use Sybase CEP Engine's High Availability features and assumes that you are setting these preferences manually in the configuration files. If you are installing Sybase CEP Server on a UNIX-like operating system, however, you can use the install-server.sh Sybase CEP Server script to configure many High Availability settings automatically during installation.
Nevertheless, even if you plan on running Sybase CEP Server on a UNIX-like system and do not need to set all the High Availability preferences manually, Sybase recommends that you read the rest of this chapter before installing Sybase CEP Server to understand the various preference settings. After you familiarize yourself with the preferences, run install-server.sh once for every Manager or Container Server you are installing and make the appropriate selections when prompted by the script. After running the script, edit the configuration files to set the remaining preferences, as discussed in this chapter.