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Deb_Allen_18
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Jun 09, 2005

finding ACTIVE unit

Hi guys -     My customer has an iControl app which, in 4.x, hit the floating self-IP to manage node status on the Active unit only (for maintenance).     We have upgrade...
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Joe_Pruitt
Jun 09, 2005
Not sure what to advise on the floating ip running on the admin port. As far as I can tell, that isn't possible but I could be wrong. You might try asking product support on that one.

As for the failover state, You can use the following method to determine the failover state of the device 

 enum FailoverState { 
   FAILOVER_STATE_STANDBY = 0, 
   FAILOVER_STATE_ACTIVE = 1 
 }; 
  
 FailoverState System::Failover::get_failover_state();

The values are just as you would expect, if you get FAILOVER_STATE_STANDBY, the unit is in standby mode, if it's FAILOVER_STATE_ACTIVE, it's the active unit in the pair.

-Joe