Node Swap

You may wish 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 may 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, first ensure that the new primary (CENTRALB in this example) actually does have the current task configuration. Then 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. Then follow the instructions for resyncing the database, but do not start the MOVEit Central services. (Remember to always invoke the copy function from the current secondary node.) Then use the MOVEit Central 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".) Finally, start the new primary MOVEit Central, followed by the new secondary.