Lan900 Events And Proactive Failover (Unequal Network Costs) - HP -UX 11i v3 Administrator's Manual

3. Edit the configuration file.
FAILOVER_GROUP
# Primary/Standby
#
Table C-2 lists lan900 events for this example and how proactive failover determines the active
port for lan902.
Table C-2 lan900 Events and Proactive Failover (Unequal Network Costs)
Event
Failover group constructed
Port 2 on lan900 is DOWN
Port 2 on lan900 is UP
Port 4 on lan901 is DOWN
Port 4 on lan901 is UP
Ports 2 and 3 on lan900 are
DOWN
1 All ports in the link aggregates are operational.
2 Normalized port cost is lower than lan901.
3 Normalized port cost is lower than lan900.
4
Normalized port cost is lower than lan901.
5 Normalized port cost is lower than lan901.
6 Normalized port cost is lower than lan901.
7 This behavior is the same as if lan902 were a priority-based failover group.
104 Configuring HP APA by editing files
STATIONARY_IP 10.0.1.60
+
PRIMARY lan900
STANDBY lan901
lan900 Normalized Port
Cost
1
2/200, or .010
2/100, or .020
2/200, or .010
2/200, or .010
2/200, or .010
0
lan902
Interface Priority : Cost
+
8 : 2
7 : 3
lan901 Normalized Port
Cost
3/200, or .015
3/200, or .015
3/200, or .015
3/100, or .030
3/200, or .015
3/200, or .015
Active Port
2
lan900
3
lan901
4
lan900
5
lan900
6
lan900
7
lan901