Configuring Primary and Secondary Runtime Manager

In the RTM redundancy model, you need to specially configure both the Primary and the Secondary RTM, and you need to edit the .INI file of each machine.

On the Primary RTM Machine
  1. Create a text file in the windows directory called vbvrtm.ini.

  2. Add an entry in vbvrtm.ini containing:

[Config]
host1=<name or IP of primary RTM machine>
host2=<name or IP of secondary RTM machine>

On the Secondary RTM Machine

Copy the Primary RTM configuration file to the windows directory of the Secondary RTM machine.

On Each VBVoice Client Machine

Edit the configuration file VBVoice.INI of each machine by adding the following lines:

[RTM]
host1=<name or IP of primary RTM machine>
host2=<name or IP of secondary RTM machine>

Although the use of localhost works, Pronexus does not recommend its use. Localhost is considered local for the machine that contains the configuration file. So host1 equals localhost on the Primary RTM machine, for example, and host1 equals something else (the name of the Primary) on the Secondary RTM machine. Using the absolute names on each machine makes configuration easier, because both RTMs have the same copy of the configuration file vbvrtm.ini. Moreover, all client machines have the same host1 and host2 names even if one of these machines were used to host an RTM.