You might want to switch the roles of a primary and secondary node back after a failover. For instance, if you have computers named CENTRALA and CENTRALB, you might find it convenient to have the CENTRALA computer normally be the primary node. Thus, after a failover from CENTRALA to CENTRALB, you may wish to force CENTRALA to be the primary node again.
To accomplish this:
Ensure that the new primary (CENTRALB in this example) actually does have the current task configuration.
Run briefly with both nodes up in the reversed role scenario, to allow any changed settings to replicate from recently-promoted CENTRALB to the recently-demoted CENTRALA.
Important: Both nodes must be running to allow MOVEit Automation to sync the state file.
Follow the instructions for resyncing the database, but do not start the MOVEit Automation services. (Remember to always invoke the copy function from the current secondary node.)
Use the MOVEit Automation Configuration utility to set the appropriate values for "Startup Role" on each of the two nodes. (One will be set to "Primary" and the other will be set to "Secondary".)
Start the new primary MOVEit Automation, followed by the new secondary.
