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The Active Directory account password cannot be blank. Click OK to return to the
Monitor Settings dialog box.

At this point, in terms of your evaluation, your failover configuration is complete because
you will be using the default settings for the remaining options. But while you are
viewing the Monitor Settings dialog box, notice the flexible configuration options
available to you.

7. Monitoring failover

Since it can be essential to quickly know the status of failover, Storage Mirroring
Recover offers various methods for monitoring the state of failover. When the Failover
Control Center is running, you will see four visual indicators.

The Failover Control Center Time to Fail counter

The Failover Control Center status bar located at the bottom of the window

The Failover Control Center colored bullets to the left of each IP address and
source machine

The Windows desktop icon tray containing a failover icon