HP Traffic Director sa7220 - Manual (Page 49)

C H A P T E R 2 Serial Cable Failover
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Replicating the Configuration
The active configuration is replicated upon changes to the Backup
SA8220 from the Primary. For most configurations, faults are
detected within 3 seconds, and the Backup is fully online within 25
seconds. The latter interval increases as the number of services
increases.
Status Information
You can display information about the SA8220s’ function and
failover status either via the Command Line Interface or the GUI.
Below are the commands to display status information followed by a
list of status messages and their explanations.
1. Log in to the SA8220.
2. At the CLI prompt, type the following command:
HP SA8220>info
The status appears on the last line of the info command’s output.
A description of the status message can be found below.
Failover Status Message Description
The broker is ONLINE, and
serial failover is NONE
(disabled). One of the SA8220s is configured
for either “none” or “route”
failover.
The broker is PRIMARY and
ONLINE, the remote's serial
failover is NONE (disabled). One of the SA8220s is configured
for either “none” or “route”
failover.
The broker is PRIMARY and
ONLINE, the remote's state is
READY. Normal Serial Failover Operation
The broker is BACKUP and
READY, and the remote's
state is ONLINE.