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5.9 Add a Secondary Appliance for AutoSync
5.9 Add a Secondary Appliance for AutoSync
Install an optional Secondary Enterprise Manager appliance to provide redundancy for the
Primary appliance.
You can auto-synchronize (Autosync) a Secondary appliance to a Primary appliance, enabling
faster recovery should the Primary appliance fail for any reason.
The Autosync feature copies Fleet data from the Primary Appliance to the Secondary Appli-
ance. This data includes:
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The central configuration for AIVs.
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The workspace map.
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Payload information.
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The Pending job queue.
To make sure that synchronization persists, Autosync maintains a constant heartbeat signal on
the network between appliances. If an appliance fails to respond, the lack of a response indic-
ates a possible failure of the appliance, or of network communications between the appliances.
An error message notifies you of the failure so that you can diagnose and correct the problem.
You use the SetNetGo Web interface to configure Autosync, which involves specifying an
authentication key to join two appliances into a pair and establish their autosync roles.
Setting up an optional Secondary appliance is described in Installation on page 21 and Con-
figuration on page 45.
5.10 Configure a Secondary Appliance and Autosync
The default (shipped) configuration for an Enterprise Manager 2100 is for Primary appliance
operation. To create an Autosync pair, you use SetNetGo to configure the existing Primary to
communicate with the Secondary. The paired appliances then function as follows:
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The Primary unit is a fully-functional Enterprise Manager appliance, running the
Mobile Robot Software Suite and actively controlling the fleet.
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The Secondary unit is powered on, with its Web interface accessible to the Primary unit.
However, the Mobile Robot Software Suite is inactive on the Secondary unit, and it is
inaccessible from MobilePlanner or AIVs.
The Primary appliance has two active IP addresses, while the Secondary has only one active
IP address.
This release supports mixed model EM2100 and EM1100 configurations, but you must use the
EM1100
only as a Secondary appliance. For more information, see: Supported Enterprise Man-
ager 2100 Deployments on page 14.