Coyote Point Systems E350GX, Installation And Administration Manual

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Chapter 5: Configuring Equalizer Operation
94 Equalizer Installation and Administration Guide
8. Follow the directions on the
Connect to Peer
screen to copy the peer signature of the other Equalizer into the
text box displayed. Click the
next
button to continue.
9. On the
Set Peer Names and Primary Peer
screen:
a. Enter names for both peers (or accept the defaults provided).
b. Enable the
Preferred Primary
check box to make this Equalizer the preferred primary. If this check box is
disabled, the other Equalizer will be made the preferred primary.
Click the
next
button to continue.
10. The
VLAN Settings
screen displays the current VLAN settings that will be used to establish failover with the
other Equalizer. If there is some error in the settings displayed, you can click the
vlan config
button to go to the
VLAN Configuration
tab and exit the wizard. Otherwise, click
next
to continue.
11. On the
Configuration Transfer Settings
screen, select whether you want to transfer the configuration between
systems when a change ismade, and which elements of the configuration are transferred:
Click the
next
button to continue.
12. Click the
next
button on the
Start Failover Negotiation
screen to start the process of establishing failover
between the peers.
13. The
Failover Negotiation Status
screen displays the progress of the negotiation between the peers. Once
synchronization is complete and the failover process has been restarted on both systems, the
Status
for one peer
should read
STABLE_PRIMARY
. and the other should read
STABLE_BACKUP
. Click
close
to exit the wizard.
Enabling Failover Using the Failover Tabs
The Failover Wizard allows you to setup failover on one machine and transfer the configuration over to the other.
The only information that both machines need to know are each other’s peer fingerprints. This section shows you
how to setup failover manually using the tabs in the Administrative Interface. This method requires that you supply
all configuration information manually on
both Equalizers.
Manually Enabling Failover
1. Ensure that the VLAN configuration on both systems is the same with respect to:
• the number of VLANs configured
• the following parameters of each VLAN:
•
VID (VLAN ID)
• VLAN IP address
• VLAN netmask
Enable transfers
Transfers the configuration file and any others items selected from
the options below. If this option is disabled, then nothing is
transferred between the failover peers.
SSL Certificates Transfer all certificates associated with HTTPS clusters.
Envoy settings Transfer the configuration for the optional Envoy GSLB product.
DNS Transfer the Domain Name Service (DNS) settings.
Logging configuration Transfer the remote logging configuration.
Note – The Add Peer Signature command (used in the previous procedure to setup failover using the Wizard)
does not populate the Failover tab with the peer’s signature; it is intended for use with the Failover Wizard only.