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HP Storage Mirroring Software User Manual

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Shares

—Failover is performed on shares.

14.

Disable

Manual Intervention

only if you want failover to occur immediately when a failure occurs.

15.

If the

Shares

selection under

Items to Failover

is selected, verify that the

Use .SHR Share Mapping File

check box is

selected if you would like to use Storage Mirroring share mapping file to create shares on the target machine during
failover. If the

Use .SHR Share Mapping File

check box is not selected, shares will be created using the information

gathered when the machine was selected as a source machine to be monitored.

16.

By default,

Failover Hostname

is disabled. This option automatically removes the host SPN (Service Principle Name)

from Active Directory on the source and adds it to Active Directory on the target. If you are using Active Directory,
enable this option or you may experience problems with failover.

17.

Failback Hostname

returns the host SPN on the source and target back to their original settings on failback. If you are

using Active Directory, enable this option or you may experience problems with failback.

18.

If you are using Active Directory, click

Account

and identify a user and the associated password that has update

privileges within Active Directory. This allows SPNs to be created and deleted during failover. Click

OK

to return to the

Monitor Settings dialog box.

NOTE:

Share information is automatically updated on the target once an hour. If you need to manually update
the share information, click

Update Shares

on the main Failover Control Center window after the

connection has been established.

If a share is created on Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000 with the default full access permissions
(without an ACL) and then failed over, the permissions given to the target will be dependent on the
target's operating system. On a Windows 2003 target, the default permission will only be read-only
permission.

NOTE:

If the

Shares

selection under

Items to Failover

is not selected, shares will not be failed over to the target

regardless of the

Use .SHR Share Mapping File

selection.

Share information is automatically updated on the target once an hour. If you need to manually update the
share information regardless of the

Use .SHR Share Mapping File

selection, click

Update Shares

on the

main Failover Control Center window after the monitor has been created.

Automatic share failover only occurs for Windows shares. Other shares, such as NFS shares or Macintosh
Volumes, must be configured for failover through the failover scripts.

NOTE:

If you are using Active Directory, your account password cannot be blank.