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High Availability Status

What can I do here?

Use this window to see the High Availability status, and to change the server between primary (active) and secondary (standby).

Getting Here

Getting Here - Menu > Management High Availability

The High Availability Environment

A Management High Availability environment includes:

For full redundancy, the active management server at intervals synchronizes its database with the secondary server or servers.

Active vs. Standby

In a standard High Availability configuration there is one Active server at a time. The administrator uses the Active server manage the High Availability configuration. The Active server automatically synchronizes the standby server(s) at regular intervals. You can open a Standby server only in Read Only mode. If the Active server fails, you can initiate a changeover to make a Standby server become the Active server. If communication with the Active server fails, there may be more than one Active server. This is called Collision Mode.

Primary Server vs. Secondary Server

The sequence in which you install management servers defines them as Primary or Secondary. The first management server installed becomes the Primary active server. When you install more Security Management Servers, you define them as Secondary. Secondary servers are Standby servers by default.

Important notes about backing up and restoring in Management High Availability environment:

For more information:

Single and Multi-Domain Management High Availability

For Security Management Server

Configuring a Secondary Server in SmartConsole

Synchronizing Active and Standby Servers

Understanding how Synchronization Works

Monitoring High Availability

Monitoring Synchronization Status

Failover Between Active and Standby

Changing a Server to Active or Standby

High Availability Troubleshooting

For Multi-Domain Server

Synchronization

ICA Database Synchronization