Administration of DNS SRV records for local Presence Services domains in Geographic Redundant deployment

Last Updated : Oct 28, 2020 |
Prolog information
In a Geographic Redundant deployment the external server must be able to discover Presence Services in both data centers. During normal operations, for a given domain, the external server talks to a single node of one of the data centers (typically local data center). However, in the event of data center failure, it must be able communicate with one of the nodes in the other data center. To accomplish this, it is required to administer additional m * n DNS SRV records with lower priority to resolve _xmpp-server to the Avaya Breeze® platform Security Module IP address of other data center.
Please refer to Administering DNS SRV records for local Presence Services domains for general details on configuring such DNS SRV records.
Note:
The priority of SRV records must be assigned carefully. Smaller number in the priority field indicates higher priority of the record whereas bigger number in the priority field indicates lower priority of the record. Ensure that the priorities are assigned in such a way that the SRV records with IP addresses in the local data center of the DNS server takes precedence over the remote IP addresses.
Note:
If the deployment has multiple local Presence / IM domains, then it is recommended to load balance the traffic among various Avaya Breeze® platform servers based on the domains.
  • There are two data centers (Presence Services Avaya Breeze® platform clusters) in New York & Hong Kong.
  • Each cluster has two Avaya Breeze® platform Servers.
  • Security module IP address of server in New York are 192.0.2.11 and 192.0.2.21.
  • Security module IP address of server in Hong Kong are 192.0.3.31 and 192.0.3.41.
  • Local presence domain are presenceservices1.ps.avaya.com and presenceservices2.ps.avaya.com.
Then, create four SRV records on New York DNS and another four SRV records on Hong Kong DNS, as shown in the table below.
SRV records on New York DNS
Domain
Service
Protocol
Priority
Weight
Port
Host
presenceservices1.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
0
0
5269
192.0.2.11
presenceservices2.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
0
0
5269
192.0.2.21
presenceservices1.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
1
0
5269
192.0.3.31
presenceservices2.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
1
0
5269
192.0.3.41
SRV records on Hong Kong DNS
Domain
Service
Protocol
Priority
Weight
Port
Host
presenceservices1.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
0
0
5269
192.0.3.31
presenceservices2.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
0
0
5269
192.0.3.41
presenceservices1.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
1
0
5269
192.0.2.11
presenceservices2.ps.avaya.com
_xmpp-server
_tcp
1
0
5269
192.0.2.21