Initiating A Cp Failover; Event Monitoring - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

1. Open the High Availability window as described in
2. Verify that the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized.
3. Click Synchronize Services.
4. Click Yes and wait for the CPs to complete a synchronization of services, so that a
5. Click Refresh to update the HA Status field.

Initiating a CP failover

A nondisruptive failover might take about 30 seconds to complete. During the failover, all of the
Web Tools windows and all associated child-windows are invalidated. You must close all Web Tools
windows and open Web Tools again.
Use the following procedure to initiate a nondisruptive failover.
1. Open the High Availability window as described in
2. Verify that the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized or HA
3. Click Initiate Failover.
4. Click Yes to initiate a nondisruptive failover.
5. When prompted, close the Web Tools Switch Explorer window and all associated windows, and

Event monitoring

Web Tools displays fabric-wide and switch-wide events. Event information includes sortable fields
for the following:
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If the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized you are
finished.
If the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State not in sync, continue with
step 3.
The Warning dialog box displays.
nondisruptive failover is ready.
When the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized a failover
can be initiated without disrupting frame traffic on the fabric.
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enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State not in sync.
The Warning dialog box displays.
re-open Web Tools.
Switch name
Message number
Time stamp
Indication of whether the event is from a logical switch or a chassis
The number of successive events of the same kind

Event monitoring

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