Setting Up Redundancy Measures

Redundancy measures help keep the operations running in case of unforeseen adversities. Securden supports high availability configurations and database backups for on-premises installations. For cloud edition, the redundancy measures are enforced from Securdenʼs end.

High Availability

To ensure users can avail privilege management facilities at all times, you must make use of the high availability setup in Securden. You can configure secondary servers that automatically activate and become the primary server during a failover. Once the primary is back online, you can revert to the initial configuration.

Navigate to Admin -> High Availability to configure this redundancy measure.

Pro Tip

You can make use of the high availability setup to configure load balancers as well. The secondary application servers will help handle large volumes of requests and database queries by distributing the load amongst themselves.

Backups

You can take backups of your database to safeguard configurations, policies, and application repositories among other data in rare scenarios where the server fails to work as intended. Once you take the backup, ensure you keep the copy at a secure location away from the server.

Pro Tip

When taking a backup, you must ensure that you take a backup of the encryption key. Without the encryption key, the backups cannot be decrypted.