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Overview: BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Log in to the BlackBerry Administration Service for the first time
Creating administrator accounts
Using an IT policy to manage BlackBerry Enterprise Solution security
Configuring security options
Configuring the BlackBerry Enterprise Server environment
Configuring user accounts
Assigning BlackBerry devices to users
Configuring BlackBerry Enterprise Server high availability
- Check the health of a BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  - Availability state and failover status of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
- How the BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses health parameters
  - Defining when failover occurs
- Changing the promotion threshold and failover threshold
  - Change the promotion threshold and failover threshold and the order of the health parameters
    - Health parameters for the failover threshold and promotion threshold
  - Changing when automatic failover occurs by customizing the health parameters for user accounts and messaging servers
    - Change when automatic failover occurs by customizing the health parameters for user accounts and messaging servers
- Prerequisites: Configuring the BlackBerry Enterprise Server pair to fail over automatically
- Configure the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to fail over automatically
- Monitoring the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for an automatic failover event
  - Use the BlackBerry Administration Service to find the time and reason for the last automatic failover event
- Fail over the BlackBerry Enterprise Server manually using the BlackBerry Administration Service
- Fail over the BlackBerry Enterprise Server manually using the BlackBerry Configuration Panel
Configuring high availability for BlackBerry Enterprise Server components
Configuring BlackBerry Configuration Database high availability
Sending software and BlackBerry Java Applications to BlackBerry devices
Alternative methods for installing BlackBerry Java Applications on BlackBerry devices
Making BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications and BlackBerry Browser Applications available to users
Configuring how users access enterprise applications and web content
Setting up the messaging environment
Configuring BlackBerry devices to enroll certificates over the wireless network
Making the BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager available to users
Configuring the BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager
Creating and configuring Wi-Fi profiles, VPN profiles, and VoIP profiles
Configuring encryption and authentication methods for Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry devices
Configuring software tokens for BlackBerry devices
Changing the security settings of the BlackBerry Administration Service and BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager
Managing administrator accounts
Managing groups and user accounts
Using IT administration commands to protect a lost or stolen BlackBerry device
Managing the delivery of BlackBerry Java Applications, BlackBerry Device Software, and device settings to BlackBerry devices
Managing BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications and BlackBerry Browser Applications
Managing how users access enterprise applications and web content
Managing organizer data synchronization
Managing your organization's messaging environment and attachment support
Managing calendars
Managing instant messaging
Managing a BlackBerry Domain
BlackBerry Controller and BlackBerry Enterprise Server Component Monitoring
BlackBerry Enterprise Server log files
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution connection types and port numbers
Troubleshooting
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Fail over the BlackBerry Enterprise Server manually using the BlackBerry Configuration Panel

You can use the BlackBerry® Configuration Panel to force the primary BlackBerry® Enterprise Server to perform a failover process if it is not running as expected or if it requires maintenance.

Before you begin: Verify that the standby BlackBerry Enterprise Server is running.

In the BlackBerry Configuration Panel for the standby BlackBerry Enterprise Server, on the BlackBerry Server tab, click Make Primary.
Click OK.
Verify that the failover event occured.

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