Install IDERA Dashboard on any machine with the repository hosted on a High Availability SQL Server Instance
After your cluster environment and your availability group are set up, install the IDERA Dashboard on any server of your virtual machine following the normal installation steps
Run the Idera Dashboard installation file on your respective server.
- Click Next to the Welcome Wizard.
- Click “Next” at the Wizard’s welcome screen.
- Accept the Terms and Conditions and click “Next”.
- Select Install “Idera Dashboard Locally” and Click “Next”.
- Select the folder you want to install Dashboard to and click “Next”.
- Enter the service account username and password and click “Next”.
- Select the ports that you want to host the Idera Dashboard services on and click “Next”.
- Select the SQL Server Instance which has been configured for High Availability
Click Install on the final screen
Click Finish
Configuring SQL SERVER Database for High Availabil
Go to SQL Server Management Studio from a local machine or a remote machine on the same network and connect to the cluster environment’s SQL Server Instance.
Under “Databases”, Right-Click on the Idera Dashboard repository and click “properties”
Go to the “Options” tab from the Left hand side and set the Recovery model to “Full”
Save the changes by clicking “OK”
Now right-click on the repository and under Tasks, select “Back Up..”
Select “FULL” backup type and click “Ok”
After the backup is complete, Go to ‘Always ON High Availability’, and under ‘Availability Group’, Select “Add Database..”
This opens wizard. Click ‘Next’ on the Wizard
Select the Idera Dashboard Repository and click “Next”
Select “Full” data synchronization preference and click “Next”
Connect to all the secondary nodes and click “Next”
Let the validation run and click ‘Next’
Click ‘Finish’
When the wizard completes click “Close”
5: Checking Failover of Database
When the Installation is successful, we should be able to access the Idera Dashboard from the desktop shortcut
The Idera Dashboard should appear on the default browser
We can install any IDERA product of choice over this Idera Dashboard. In this instance, the SQL Inventory Manager has been installed.
Failover of the database can be performed in 2 ways
1 - Manual Failover from SQL Server Management Studio.
Steps:
Failover the Availability Group from SQLServer Management Studio From the primary node.
Click “Next”
Select an appropriate failover node and click “Next”
Connect to the respective node and click “Next”
Click “Finish”
Click “Close”
Now continue to browse Idera Dashboard. The application will be unaffected.
2 - Failover from Windows Failover Cluster Manager
Steps
Go to Roles Tab of Windows Failover Cluster Manager
Right-Click on the Availability Group where the Dashboard repository has been configured and select Move to Best Possible node.
Continue browsing the Idera Dashboard application. The application will be functioning normally.