arangodb/Documentation/Books/Manual/Deployment/ActiveFailover/ManualStart.md

Starting Manually

We are going to start two single server instances and one Agency.

First we need to start the Agent:

    arangod \
        --agency.activate true \
        --agency.endpoint tcp://agency.domain.org:4001 \
        --agency.my-address tcp://agency.domain.org:4001 \
        --agency.pool-size 1 \
        --agency.size 1 \
        --database.directory dbdir/data4001 \
        --javascript.v8-contexts 1 \
        --server.endpoint tcp://agency.domain.org:4001 \
        --server.statistics false \
        --server.threads 16 \
        --log.file dbdir/4001.log \
        --log.level INFO \
        | tee dbdir/4001.stdout 2>&1 &

Next we are going to start the leader (wait until this server is fully started)

    arangod \
      --database.directory dbdir/data8530 \
      --cluster.agency-endpoint tcp://agency.domain.org:4001 \
      --cluster.my-address tcp://leader.domain.org:4001 \
      --server.endpoint tcp://leader.domain.org:4001 \
      --cluster.my-role SINGLE \
      --replication.active-failover true \
      --log.file dbdir/8530.log \
      --server.statistics true \
      --server.threads 5 \
      | tee cluster/8530.stdout 2>&1 &

After the leader server is fully started then you can add additional followers, with basically the same startup parameters (except for their address and database directory)

    arangod \
      --database.directory dbdir/data8531 \
      --cluster.agency-endpoint tcp://agency.domain.org:4001 \
      --cluster.my-address tcp://leader.domain.org:4001 \
      --server.endpoint tcp://leader.domain.org:4001 \
      --cluster.my-role SINGLE \
      --replication.active-failover true \
      --log.file dbdir/8531.log \
      --server.statistics true \
      --server.threads 5 \
      | tee cluster/8531.stdout 2>&1 &