Failover monitors

Failover monitoring allows you to select events to monitor and automatically enact server failover when an event occurs. You also select a standby pool. The types of events which can be monitored include server loss of power and hard drive failure. When failover occurs, activity is transferred to a compatible server in the standby pool. To add, edit, remove, start, and pause a failover monitor, complete the following steps.

1. Select Monitors. The summary view shows information about the failover monitor. You can also select a failover monitor to view detailed information.
   
2. Select an action from the following choices:
   • Add

     Select this choice to add a failover monitor configuration. You select the failover settings that define the failover servers and select the triggering events to be monitored.

     Select Failover VLAN under Failover settings to add the standby bay Ethernet port to the VLAN when a failover occurs. The failover operation does not add the Port VLAN ID (PVID) settings.

   • Edit

     Select this choice to edit the failover monitor configuration.

   • Remove

     Select this choice to remove the selected failover monitor configuration.

   • Start

     Select this choice to start monitoring using the configuration. IFM monitors the hardware in the pool for events and performs a failover should an event occur.

   • Pause

     Select this choice to pause monitoring using the configuration.