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How to configure Hot Standby Gateways with different ports on different servers

  1. Ensure that the Listen Port setting in the Operating Environment section is not enabled. 2. Ensure that the Gateway is started with the -port flag. Steps as follows:

  2. Install the Primary Gateway 2. Modify the Primary Gateway’s start script to include the -port flag. For example:

## Execute the binary cd tickets/${GW_DIR} ./gateway2.linux_64 -setup ${SETUP_DIR} -log ${GW_LOG} -port 10702 &
  1. Start the Primary Gateway process 4. Access the Primary gateway’s configuration via the GSE 5. Go to the Hot Standby section 6. Fill up the section. For example:
  1. Save the configuration

  2. Transfer the Primary Gateway’s setup file (e.g. gateway.setup.xml) to the Secondary Gateway’s server

  3. Install the Secondary Gateway

  4. Modify the Secondary Gateway’s start script to

  5. use the Primary Gateway’s setup file

  6. include the -port flag. For example:

## Execute the binary cd tickets/${GW_DIR} ./gateway2.linux_64 -setup ${SETUP_DIR} -log ${GW_LOG} -port 10703 &
  1. Start the Secondary Gateway process
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