Since you do not have a load balancer in front of it , you probably don't want to make a server group.
Making it into a server group is pretty easy - there's step by step directions in the docs. Basically you do this: 1. Change the server alias to your server group name - this should match the load balancer name. 2. Add IP-Name entries for every possible name/ip the server could know itself as - so the IP of each all servers, FWDN and short name of all servers, and the load balancer and IP. 3. Check the "Server Group Member" checkbox in the config tab of AR admin of all servers 4. You can ignore the "server group name" under the advanced tab - this is no longer used 5. Shut down all the servers except the admin server 6. Configure the entries in the AR Server Group Operation Ranking form. Each operation should have an entry for each server and a rank (in your case) of 1 or 2. You'd probably want to keep all of them 1 for your old server and 2 for your new server. 7. Shut down the admin server 8. Restart the admin server. When it is up completely restart all other servers William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of richard....@bwc.state.oh.us Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:56 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Server Group question.... ** No load balancers. Testers will be accessing them directly through different dns names. But....since the 2003 server was created as a standalone server (i.e. NOT in a server group...) how can I now make it into a server group member? Do I need to reinstall it as an actual server group and server group member or can I change something in the ar.cfg file or...???? to make it into a server in a server group? Since the forms, permissions, etc. are all contained in the sql database this would be the easiest way to create the new system (parallel the 2003 with the 2012 and then just shut down the 2003 after testing and verification). From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:46 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: Re: Server Group question.... ** Are you going to put the servers behind a load balancer? Or are they going directly to the servers? You could put them in a server group at least temporarily - this will prevent servers from stepping on each other's toes. Make sure you define the entries in the Server Group Operation Ranking form and take care of the naming (server group name, IP-Name entries in ar.conf, etc). The docs cover this pretty well. Barring that, you can disable escalations, SLM Business Rules engine, and admin operations on one server (double check the docs in case I missed anything). That will prevent the servers from colliding on the automatic tasks. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com<mailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com> Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of richard....@bwc.state.oh.us<mailto:richard....@bwc.state.oh.us> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:41 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: Re: Server Group question.... ** We currently have our AR/Midtier on 2003 servers. They're going out of support so we want to move the AR/Midtier system to 2012 servers. Midtier won't present any problems. I'd like to not have to define a new database and move all the data to a new database server. So, if we can set up an AR system on a 2012 server, share the database and after test just shut off the 2003 AR server that would be ideal. Having both servers active until that time would allow users to do testing on the 2003 server and the 2012 server at the same time - we hope.... From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:32 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: Re: Server Group question.... ** I've had a lot of experience with these. First - what problem are you trying to solve by adding a server? William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com<mailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com> Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of richard....@bwc.state.oh.us<mailto:richard....@bwc.state.oh.us> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:20 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: Server Group question.... ** I'd like to ask a question - I've read the config/install manuals and didn't find a good definite answer in them. We have a 7.6.04 system with an AR server, a mid-tier server and a database server. What I need to do is to be able to add a second AR and Midtier server on our system. Should it be built as a separate AR/Midtier system and "share" the existing database or do I need to somehow "convert" the existing AR/Midtier system into a server group (of 1 server) and add the "new" server into the group? Thanks for any and all suggestions! 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