Replacing the main server

When your main server is no longer adequate, you can replace it with a new server, activate your Security Center license on the new server, and connect all expansion servers to the new server.

To replace the main server:

1. Install Security Center on the new machine using the Main server configuration, but do not activate the license.
   For more information, see the Security Center Installation and Upgrade Guide.
2. Contact Genetec™ Customer Services to reset your Security Center license so you can activate it on the new server.
   Verify on GTAP (https://gtap.genetec.com) that the Activate license button for your system is enabled.

   

3. Activate your Security Center license on the new server.
   For more information, see the Security Center Installation and Upgrade Guide.

   NOTE: The new server is not yet part of your system. It is a system on its own.
4. If you have other roles than the Directory that run on your main server and that need their own database, such as the Health Monitor role, back up their databases.
5. Wait for the scheduled maintenance to start before continuing with the next step.
   Starting from the next step, your system will be down until the end of the process.
6. Back up your Directory database.
   1. Open Server Admin and connect to your old main server.
   2. At the top of the browser window, click Directory > Stop .
      This ensures that the database is not being accessed while you are backing it up.
   3. Click Database > Properties () , set the Destination folder for your database backup, and click OK.
      Make sure the backup folder can be accessed from your new server.
   4. Click Backup/Restore () > Backup now .
   5. Click Close.
7. Restore the Directory database (.bak file) onto the new main server.
   1. Open Server Admin and connect to your new main server.
   2. Click Database > Backup/Restore () , select the backup file you want to restore, and click Restore now.
   3. Click Close.
8. Connect all your expansion servers to the new main server.
9. Do one of the following:
   • Convert the old main server to an expansion server.
   • Decommission your old main server.

     We recommend that you do this in two stages. For now, disable the Genetec™ Server service on your old server to prevent the service from starting by accident. When the new server is fully operational, uninstall Security Center from the old server.

10. Open Config Tool and connect it to the new main server, using your old Admin credentials.
11. Open the Network view task, and confirm that all your expansion servers are online ().
    You should also see an offline copy () for each server. Do not delete them yet.
12. Open the System task, and click the Roles view.
13. Recreate the Media Router role database.
    1. Select Media Router from the role list and click Resources.
    2. Click Create a database ().
    3. In the window that opens, click Overwrite existing database > OK .
14. For the remaining roles in the list that are in warning (yellow) or trouble (red) state, do the following:
    1. Select the role and click Resources.
    2. In the Servers list, if the old main server is listed, replace it with the new one.
    3. If the role had a database hosted on the old server, create a database on the new server and restore the backup.
15. Open the Network view task, and delete the offline copies of your servers ().