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Click the
Auto-Failover
link just under the tabs.
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Select the
Enable Automatic Failover of Business Continuity Cluster Resources
check box,
then click
Apply
.
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Continue with
Section C.2, “Creating an Auto-Failover Policy,” on page 134
to create a
failover policy.
Auto-failover is not completely enabled until you create an auto-failover policy.
C.2 Creating an Auto-Failover Policy
By default, no auto-failover policy exists for BCC. You must create an auto-failover policy for each
cluster in your BCC where you want auto-failover enabled. This is required to automatically fail
over resources from one cluster to another.
1
In iManager, under
Cluster Membership Monitoring Settings
, select a cluster and click the
Edit
link.
2
Under
Membership Threshold
, select the
Enable
check box, select either
Percent Fail
or
Nodes
Fail,
and specify either the percentage of failed nodes or the number of failed nodes.
The node failure number or percentage you specify must be met for the selected cluster before
resources automatically fail over to another cluster.
IMPORTANT:
Do not use a membership condition of total node failure (either 100 percent or
the total number of nodes); the condition cannot be satisfied because the cluster will not be up
to report this state.
If a cluster has been totally downed, you must bring up the master node in the downed cluster,
then run the
cluster resetresources
command on that node before you begin manually
migrating the BCC-enabled resources to peer clusters.
3
Under
Communication Timeout
, select the
Enable
check box and specify the number of
minutes that must elapse without any communication between clusters before resources
automatically fail over to another cluster.
4
Click
OK
to finish editing the policy.
5
Click the
Apply
button to save your settings.
C.3 Refining the Auto-Failover Policy
You can further refine auto-failover policies to give you more control over if or when an auto-
failover occurs. To do this, click the
Advanced
button to display additional fields for specifying
auto-failover criteria and adding monitoring information.
The policy for automatic failover is configured by creating rules. Each row in the Failover Policy
Configuration table represents a rule that applies to a single cluster, or to all clusters in the business
continuity cluster. Each rule contains a set of conditions. Each condition tests one of the following
criteria:
The value of an indication reported by a monitor
The amount of time the connection to a cluster has been down
If the connection to a cluster is up
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