6 Running

That's it, now you are ready to run the WANdisco HADR.

Note: Please startup all the WANdisco Replicators first before starting the WANdisco Failover Agent. See the WANdisco Replicator administration guide on how to launch the WANdisco Replicator. The WANdisco Replicator must be started in the watchdog mode using the -wdog option.

Using the startup script provided to run WANdisco HADR from the command line:

$ [replicator]/bin/failoveragent
$ tail -f [replicator]/logs/FailoverAgent-prefs.log.0
....
INFO:  [main] Failover Agent listener is now turned ON at port : ....

When you see the last line, you know WANdisco HADR has started successfully. The WANdisco HADR will also startup the remote replicators if the SSH based startup commands are provided. When you start it for the first time, the SSH startup commands do not exist, so the WANdisco Failover Agent will startup without any replicators running. In that situation you can either manually startup the remote replicators or use the web console to specify the SSH startup command and startup from the web console itself.

Alternatively, you can go to the web console and check the status.

To shutdown WANdisco HADR, just run

$ [replicator]/bin/shutdown

This will trigger shutdown of the replicators also.

Caution: We recommend taking all possible precautions to avoid direct access to the SCM server, bypassing the WANdisco HADR. For example, you could setup SCM server to only allow connection from the IP address of the host on which WANdisco Failover Agent is running, you could limit shell access to the replicator and the SCM repository machine.