
d. Enable the Failover flag and click on Commit. Both peers should appear on the left
navigational pane on the Peers branch.
Perform Step 6 on the
preferred backup
Equalizer to add failover flags and create a peer
definition for the primary Equalizer.
6. Log back in to the GUI for the backup Equalizer using the procedures described in "Logging In" on page 192.
You will need to create a peer for the
preferred primary
, using the signature that you recorded from step 4b.
a. Right click on Peers in the left navigational pane and select Add failover peer to display the
peer entry form as shown below.
b. Type or paste the peer Signatureof the preferred primary Equalizer and click on Commit. The
following will be displayed.
c. Enable the Failover flag and click on Commit.
Note - Once the two peers are joined in a failover group (heartbeating and file sync are occurring), then
they synchronize their remote peer definitions with the information obtained from the remote peer -The
name and flags on the remote peer change. Once the two peers are joined in a failover group
(heartbeating and file sync are occurring), then they synchronize their remote peer definitions with the
information obtained from the remote peer -The name and flags on the remote peer change. In addition,
if you want to change the name of a peer, you MUST change the name of the local peer definition on that
peer.
Perform Steps 7 on
both
Equalizers.
You have now configured failover peers in both the preferred primary and backup Equalizers. To verify that you
have correctly configured failover do the following.
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