Configuring Application Failover for Global Network Management

You can configure both global and regional managers to use application failover. The global or regional manager automatically detects and connects to the active system.

To configure global1 to recognize the application failover do the following:

1. From the global1NNMi console, click Global Network Management in the Configuration workspace.

   This example assumes the following:

   • regional1 is configured for application failover
   • regional1_backup is configured as the secondary server
2. Click Regional Manager Connections.

3. Select regional1, then click the Open icon.

4. Click the New icon.

5. Add the Hostname, HTTP or HTTPS Port, User Name, and Ordering value. Set the ordering value to a value greater than the regional1 value.

6. Click Save and Close in each configuration form to save your changes.

   If a regional manager fails, the global manager does the following:

   1. It contacts the primary.
   2. If the primary does not respond, it contacts the secondary.

If the global system detects that the active system is not responding, it tries to reconnect starting with the lowest order number.