Performing annual maintenance

Test a planned failover

If you have an active-active Tanium Server deployment, fail over to your secondary server and then fail back to verify that the process works as expected. The failover steps depend on your Tanium infrastructure:

• Appliance: See Tanium Appliance Deployment Guide: Testing a planned failover.

• Windows: Contact Tanium Support for the steps.

Test disaster recovery

Test restoring your Tanium deployment from a backup to verify that your disaster recovery plan works as expected. The restoration steps depend on your Tanium infrastructure:

• Appliance: See Tanium Appliance Deployment Guide: TanOS restore options.

• Windows: Contact Tanium Support for the steps.