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it goes out of service. When the original gateway comes back in service, it will stay Standby
mode until manually setting its run state to Active again through the browser interface. This
will give system administrators time to fix the system or reboot the gateway once some
software/hardware update is completed.
Favorite Active
- The gateway will be put into service immediately after it is added. If a
Favorite Active gateway failed, once it is operational, the WebMux will automatically put it
back to the Active state.
Standby
- The gateway will be put into STANDBY, or backup, mode after it is added. The
WebMux will change a STANDBY gateway to ACTIVE when one or more ACTIVE gateways
fail.
Last Resort Standby
- The gateway will be put into STANDBY state. Unless all other
gateways are out of services, this gateway will not be switched in.
Back at the main status page of the web GUI, you will notice that the farm IP addresses are
now shown in grey. Before creating a next hop gateway farm, the farm IPs were shown in
blue with the ALIVE status, or red with the DEAD status. The farm IP status was an
indication of the availability of the default external route of your WebMux. Now that you
have created a gateway farm, the status of your external route is determined by the
availability of any one of the gateways in your gateway farm. As with a single default
gateway the type of health checking done on the router IPs is determined by the “front
network verifi
cation” protocol setting in the
Network Admin
section of this User Manual.
If you click on the “nh” link under the “service” column, you will get to the “modify service timeout”
page.
