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Initiating a cp failover, Event monitoring – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Web Tools Administrator’s Guide

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Event monitoring

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If the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State not in sync, continue with
step 3.

3. Click Synchronize Services.

The Warning dialog box displays.

4. Click Yes and wait for the CPs to complete a synchronization of services, so that a

nondisruptive failover is ready.

5. Click Refresh to update the HA Status field.

When the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized, a failover
can be initiated without disrupting frame traffic on the fabric.

Initiating a CP failover

A nondisruptive failover might take about 30 seconds to complete. During the failover, all of the
Web Tools windows and all associated child-windows are invalidated. You must close all Web Tools
windows and open Web Tools again.

To initiate a nondisruptive failover, perform the following steps.

1. Open the High Availability window as described in

“Launching the High Availability window”

on

page 45.

2. Verify that the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized or HA

enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State not in sync.

3. Click Initiate Failover.

The Warning dialog box displays.

4. Click Yes to initiate a nondisruptive failover.

5. When prompted, close the Web Tools Switch Explorer window and all associated windows, and

re-open Web Tools.

Event monitoring

Web Tools displays fabric-wide and switch-wide events. Event information includes sortable fields
for the following:

Switch name

Message number

Time stamp

Indication of whether the event is from a logical switch or a chassis

The number of successive events of the same kind

Severity level

Unique message identifier (in the form moduleID-messageType)

Detailed error message for root cause analysis

There are eight message severity levels:

Emergency