XMS Configuration Guide
6-5
Replication of the XMS Server’s Database
B
UDDY
S
ETTINGS
H
OST
NAME
OR
IP
: The name or IP address of the peer host. It is specifically the
name as it is known to this server. It is typically the same as “PeerPublicHost”.
However, it can be different if you chose to use a private network between the
two nodes. In this case, you would put the private network IP address of the peer.
XMS
SERVER
PORT
: The port that the peer XMS is listening on. This is typically,
14050.
R
ECONNECT
TIMEOUT
: This is the period of time the secondary server waits for the
primary server to reconnect before it switches itself to live mode. We recommend
that this setting’s value be set to
3
.
P
UBLISH
HOST
OR
IP
: The hostname or IP address of the peer XMS server as it
is known to the general network. This value is given to the clients so they know
exactly where the peer XMS node is.
V
IRTUAL
IP S
ETTINGS
V
IRTUAL
IP
ADDRESS
: This is a third static IP address the two nodes of a
replication setup toggle when live.
N
ETMASK
: This is typically 255.255.255.0
LAN IP
ADDRESS
: The general IP address of the computer. The XMS monitors
this IP address to detect network failure, and also binds the shared IP address
to the adapter where this IP address is bound. Mandatory for MOS when using
a shared IP address.
R
EGISTERED
NAME
: If a shared IP address is added to the DNS of the network and
given a name. You must put the exact fully qualified hostname bound to the
shared IP address here. Otherwise, the XMS will not add the shared IP address
to the public adapter.
Q
UEUE
S
ETTINGS
Q
UEUE
FOLDER
: The full path of the folder where the XMS stores the queue of the
replicated commands. If the drive letter is missing, it assumes that the folder is
in the working folder of the XMS (see
page 4-3
). If the folder does not exist, the
XMS creates it.
Q
UEUE
TAG
: This is typically “XMS” and can be anything you choose. It is used
as an identifier added to each filename in the queue folder. The queue tag does
not have to match that of the peer’s.
O
PEN
Q
UEUE
F
OLDER
: Opens an Explorer window to the Queue folder.
DS DB P
ROPERTIES
: This setting is for the DataServer on each node. If the
DataServer is running centrally, which is recommended and usual practice, it
should be provided with a default database. The default database is accessible
in the Data Manager/Data Source dialog of Xstudio, where one chooses to use
the default database rather than providing unique settings for the data source.
The default database is unique per node, and is usually a separate database in
the same SQL Server instance as the XmediaServer system database. This is
how redundancy is created for DataServers. The Vertigo policy for populating the
default databases is that the customer is fully responsible for providing data to
each default database in the replication environment, and our system ensures
that the DataServer instance stays paired with its relative XmediaServer
instance.