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Andy_Herrman_22
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Aug 17, 2007

iControl in HA Pair

This is probably a stupid question but I can't seem to find this documented anywhere.

 

 

How does a failover setup affect iControl? Since iControl runs over the management interface does this mean iControl has to connect to the boxes individually? Is there any way to have it automatically fail over just like everything else, so that iControl only connects to the active one, or would that need to be manually implemented?
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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Aug 20, 2007
    iControl uses the same interface as the management GUI (as you mentioned). There is no mechanism to have a floating IP that will connect to the management port of the active device.

     

     

    What we suggest you do is during your monitoring cycle, check the System::Failover::get_failover_state() method to determine whether the device is active or standby. If it's state is standby, connect to the other device (you can retrieve the "Failover.PeerIpAddr" database variable to determine the peers address if you don't have it hardcoded somewhere.

     

     

    -Joe