Use the BlackBerry Administration Service to find the time and reason for the last automatic failover event ............... 109
Fail over the BlackBerry Enterprise Server manually using the BlackBerry Administration Service .................................... 109
Fail over the BlackBerry Enterprise Server manually using the BlackBerry Configuration Panel ........................................ 110
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Configuring high availability for BlackBerry Enterprise Server components ................................... 111
Creating a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service pool for high availability .......................................................................... 111
Create a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service pool for high availability ...................................................................... 111
Configure the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service and BlackBerry Collaboration Service to fail over automatically .......... 112
Create a BlackBerry Collaboration Service pool for high availability .................................................................................. 113
Create a BlackBerry Attachment Service pool for high availability .................................................................................... 114
You cannot determine the BlackBerry Attachment Connector that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server or the
BlackBerry MDS Connection Service uses ................................................................................................................ 115
Create a BlackBerry Router pool for high availability ........................................................................................................ 116
Permit a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to connect to a remote BlackBerry Router ..................................................... 117
Creating a BlackBerry Administration Service pool that includes the BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager using DNS
round robin .................................................................................................................................................................... 118
Configure the BlackBerry Administration Service instances in a pool to communicate across network subnets .......... 119
Changing the name of the BlackBerry Administration Service pool .................................................................................. 119
Change the name of the BlackBerry Administration Service pool .............................................................................. 120
Fail over the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service or BlackBerry Collaboration Service manually ..................................... 120
Monitoring the high availability status or job deployment status using the BlackBerry Administration Service ................... 121
Monitor the high availability status or job deployment status using the BlackBerry Administration Service ................. 122
Remove a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service instance from a pool ............................................................................... 122
Remove a BlackBerry Collaboration Service instance from a pool .................................................................................... 123
Remove a BlackBerry Attachment Service instance from a pool ...................................................................................... 123
Remove a BlackBerry Router instance from a pool .......................................................................................................... 124
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Configuring BlackBerry Configuration Database high availability .................................................. 125
Prerequisites: Configuring database mirroring or database replication of the BlackBerry Configuration Database ............. 125
Configuring database mirroring ....................................................................................................................................... 126
Stop the BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances ...................................................................................................... 126
Configure database mirroring for the BlackBerry Configuration Database ................................................................. 127
Start the BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances ...................................................................................................... 127
Configure the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution to support database mirroring ............................................................. 128
Resend the database mirroring parameters to BlackBerry Enterprise Server components ......................................... 129
Configuring the BlackBerry Configuration Database for one-way transactional replication in an environment that
includes Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008 ................................................................................................................... 130
Stop the BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances ...................................................................................................... 130
Create the replicated BlackBerry Configuration Database from a backup .................................................................. 130
Permit access to the BlackBerry Configuration Database instances .......................................................................... 131
Configure the publication for the BlackBerry Configuration Database ....................................................................... 131
Increase the maximum data size for transactional replication ................................................................................... 132
