According to this article:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/u...
and the KB:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
we can understand the load balance and failover in SCSP.
Here we will provide more information about the installation with a graphical guide.
1. During the installation of the first SCSP server, you will need to choose 'Install Tomcat and create the database schema':
2. After this installation, the SCSPDB will be created and configured inside the SQL Server instance. So, for the second SCSP server, you will just need to install the Tomcat Component ONLY:
3. Before the installation of the second SCSP server, you need to copy the configuration file and certificate file on the first SCSP server to the second one.
The configuration file is located in:
C:\Program Files\Symantec\Critical System Protection\Server\tomcat\conf\server.xml
The Certificate file is located in:
C:\Program Files\Symantec\Critical System Protection\Server\server-cert.ssl
BUT, after the copy, you need to modify the SQL Server inside the configuration file.
It's recommanded to modify the SQL Server Connection String into IP address, just like the below one:
4. After the installation of the second SCSP server, you will find out there are some files missing in this second SCSP server. The most important one is the agent-cert.ssl:
Now, the installation of the fail-over SCSP server finished.
Then we will take a look into the installation of the SCSP agent.
5. During the installation of the SCSP agent, we need to configure the primary server and the alternate server:
6. After the installation, we can make some testing of the failover communication.
The agent connect to the primary server firstly, then we stop the SCSP Server service to shutdown the primary SCSP.
After that, the agent will connect to the alternate one.
We can check the communication events in the agent about this failover process:
