Using DSA to replace a BigFix Server

History

We installed BigFix on two Physical Servers (PHW-TEM-PRI and PHW-TEM-SEC) and now need to replace them with Virtual servers.

Planned Procedure

• (DONE) - Build DSA Server OS
• (REQUESTED) - Have SQL 2016 installations removed and replaced with SQL 2008R2 to match the existing systems
• Install BigFix in Replication mode using existing Masthead
• Ensure accounts and access match in SQL on the new BigFix Server and the Current BigFix server
• Let servers settle and replicate
• Promote New Server to Master status
• Change DNS Registration so that the Masthead still points to the BigFix Master Server
• Test MFA and fix anything that's not working properly.

Documentation

• Question I asked on Forums
• DSA Disaster Recovery
• Distributed Server Architecture
• IBM BigFix Distributed Server Architecture DSA Installation and Configuration
• Adding DSA server
• DSA Configuration Considerations
• Switching the Master Server (Windows)
• DSA Recovery - Windows