Step 4: Enable different console configurations in a high availability environment

In a High Availability active-passive scenario, it is recommended to install the Qlik Replicate data folder on a shared storage device. The data folder contains various configuration files in XML format (e.g. ServiceConfiguration.xml). In a standard installation, you do not need to change the names of these files. However, in a High Availability environment in which Qlik Replicate Console is installed on two different machines, you may want each machine to have its own unique settings. In such a situation, changing the name of these files to include the hostname of the Qlik Replicate Console machine (as it appears in the output of the Windows hostname command) will allow you to store a different configuration for each machine.

The file name should be formatted as follows: [Name]Configuration-[hostname].xml

For example, let’s assume that one Qlik Replicate Console is installed on a machine called replicate-main and the other Qlik Replicate Console is installed on a machine called replicate-failover. To set up a different configuration for each machine, simply create two copies of the ServiceConfiguration.xml file and then rename them to ServiceConfiguration-replicate-main.xml and ServiceConfiguration-replicate-failover.xml accordingly. After renaming the files, edit each of them with your desired settings.