Table Of Contents - HP e3000 MPE/iX Manual

Contents
1 Introduction.................................................................................................................................7
Prerequisites .............................................................................................................................8
2 Product Description ....................................................................................................................9
How Failover Works ................................................................................................................9
Triggering a Failover........................................................................................................10
Executing a Failover.........................................................................................................11
User Notification of Failover ...........................................................................................12
Once a Failover Has Occurred .........................................................................................12
Components............................................................................................................................13
System Boot Failover Initialization Utility ............................................................................13
High Availability Failover Commands ..................................................................................13
High Availability Failover Status.....................................................................................14
HAFOCONF Configuration File......................................................................................14
3 Installation .................................................................................................................................15
System Requirements .............................................................................................................16
4 Configuration ............................................................................................................................17
Configuration Planning ....................................................................................................17
HAFO Configuration Restrictions ...................................................................................17
Configuring HAFO in Pairs .............................................................................................18
Configuration Map ...........................................................................................................19
HAFO Configuration Commands ..........................................................................................21
ADDCONF (ad) .....................................................................................................................22
Timeout Parameter ...........................................................................................................23
ADDCONF limitations ....................................................................................................23
LISTCONF (li).......................................................................................................................24
DOHA ....................................................................................................................................25
Troubleshooting a Validation Error .................................................................................27
Validation Errors Displayed.............................................................................................27
DELCONF (de) ......................................................................................................................28
GONEXT (go)........................................................................................................................29
Miscellaneous HAFO Commands..........................................................................................30
REDO (re) ........................................................................................................................30
HELP (he) ........................................................................................................................31
EXIT (ex) .........................................................................................................................32
STATUS (st) ....................................................................................................................33
Special Considerations for Configuration ..............................................................................34
Rebooting After a HAFO Event.......................................................................................34
Corrupt or Problem HAFOCONF File.............................................................................34
Updating from MPE/iX 6.5 to MPE/iX 7.0 or 7.5. ..........................................................34
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