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Failover capability: The capability to switch back and forth between two sets of
production machines requires you to double the number of operational
servers (excluding the testing and quality assurance servers).
Health Monitor Server (HMS): Although it would not consume a large amount
of system resources, implementing the HMS on the same systems that run
the services and processes it monitors is not recommended. Therefore, HMS
should be installed on the history server so it has no direct impact on normal
IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager processing.
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