Configure the AVEVA Enterprise SCADA CloudData Service virtual address

Configure Virtual Hosts

Follow this procedure to configure the virtual IP address for the AVEVA Enterprise SCADA CloudData service. This arbitrated AVEVA Enterprise SCADA CloudData service requires that you manually enter a reserved IP address into the Domain Name System (DNS).

Services can be thought of as virtual hosts. When an arbitrated service, such as AVEVA Enterprise SCADA CloudData, is running and Hot on a given computer, the address of the virtual host corresponding to the arbitrated service is asserted by that computer in addition to the computer's own IP address. DNS is used to assign the address for the arbitrated service and resolve the name of the service into an IP address for any DNS client that makes the request.

Execute the procedure below on every domain where the AVEVA Enterprise SCADA CloudData service is installed.

To configure the virtual IP address for the AVEVA Enterprise SCADA CloudData service

1. Sign in to the domain controller as a domain administrator.

2. Start an elevated PowerShell session.

3. Execute the following command for the virtual hostname (the suggested record name is <system name>CloudData (for example, lspdcdssCloudData or dssCloudData):

   Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA -ZoneName <Domainname> -Name <record name> -IPv4Address <record IP> -CreatePtr

4. (If applicable) Repeat the above command to configure the SCADA hostname for servers with more than one network adapter.

5. On each domain, execute the following PowerShell commands to check if the DNS tables were successfully populated:

   Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName "<DomainName>"

   Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName "<ReverseLookupZone>.in-addr.arpa"