Thycotic Community - Secret Server - High Availability - Messages

Message from Tucker

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:53:29 GMT

Your licensing covers both test and disaster recovery instances. As long as the server is only for DR purposes and working as a Hot back for the main system your licenses will be available on that server.

Message from Peter C

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:25:48 GMT

Hi,
Clustering has a few disadvantages for our actual concept.

We would like to implement a "Warm Standby" solution via SS Scheduled Backup feature.
So a "cloned" Server with a manual database imports of the exports (on local Disk of the warm standby Server) if our main Site is not available (Network, disaster, ...).

What are the license implications of this kind of setup?
It would be ok if we had the one local useraccount (which is always active) instead of our normal 200 Active directory user licenses in case of a big emergency.

Would this be possible?

Thank you,
Peter

Message from Jonathan

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:39:09 GMT

Amar,

Front end clustering is one of the main features coming in the next release. It is code complete and working its way through QA as I type this.

We don't have an official release date yet but it is likely to be early May 2011.

Thanks for your feedback! :-D

Message from Amar G

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:29:14 GMT

Hi Tucker,

Can you please give us an update on this? Is there any timelines on when it will be released?

Thanks,
Amar

Message from Tucker

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:22:02 GMT

Hello Dustin,

Improved clustering support has been pushed back to a later release. Sorry for that not making 7.1 as previously planned. I can't give an estimate on that feature.

We do have customers running multiple web server front-ends currently and managing the upgrades manually.

Message from Inventure S

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:27:47 GMT

Hey Jonathan,

I had a quick look through the release notes of both 7.0 and 7.1, but don't see High Availability mentioned. Did this feature make it into these builds?

Dustin

Message from Jonathan

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:22:06 GMT

Jon,

Just to clarify ... high availability is supported in Secret Server today and has been for some time.

Configuring database failover for Secret Server (Summary)
http://www.thycotic.com/documentation/secretserver/DBFailoverForSecretServer.pdf

Setting up Secret Server for disaster recovery
http://support.thycotic.com/KB/a58/setting-up-secret-server-for-disaster-recovery.aspx

The upcoming feature that Tucker mentioned is the ability to support clustering of the front-end webservers. Our current high availability only involves the backend database. Look for front-end clustering support in the 7.0 or 7.1 release.

Best.

Message from Jon L

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:54:00 GMT

high availability would be great, thanks for letting us know it is on the roadmap

Message from Tucker

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:33:04 GMT

Hello Tom,

It is possible to run Secret Server with two web servers but there are a few caveats such as during upgrades you will need to manually update one of the servers. We have a feature request to improve our support for multiple webservers but we don't have a set release for that feature.

The SQL Server does not need to be on the web server. Through mirroring, the multi-backend SQL Servers is supported.

Message from Thomas S

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:11:27 GMT

Hello Tucker

Thanks for the Answers!

Is loadbalancing in general no option anymore? (IIS6?)
In the Document:http://www.thycotic.com/documentation/secretserver/DBFailoverForSecretServer.pdf
is a constellation with two Frontends described, but with Web/SQL combined plus 2 Database Servers as backend.
What for is the SQL on the Webserver needed? A coexistence of SQL and IIS on the same machine is not a recommended configuration in cause of security issues...

We can start with a single frontend for pilot, but in the future we will need a fully redundant solution.

Thanks and regards
Tom

Message from Tucker

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:45:21 GMT

Hello Tom,

Secret Server does support the SQL 2008 Failover Cluster. Since a SQL Server failover cluster appears on the network as a single SQL Server instance on a single computer, Secret Server will interact with the cluster as if single database.

Secret Server does not support IIS7 Loadbalancing. I can add that has a feature request, if needed.

Regards,
Tucker

Message from Thomas S

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:53:33 GMT

I found a few entries about DB mirroring and an old document about IIS Load Balancing but nothing about Clustering

Is W2k8/SQL2k8 Failover Cluster supported? (Shared Storage)
Is IIS7 Loadbalancing supported?

Thanks and regards
Tom