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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Configure failover support
The optional hot standby feature enables you to maintain high availability by defining a standby monitoring server to provide failover support for your hub monitoring server. If the hub monitoring server fails, hub functions automatically switch to the backup monitoring server. IBM Tivoli Monitoring automatically connects all remote monitoring servers and agents to the backup monitoring server.
Configure the hot standby feature involves the following steps:
- Configure the hot standby feature for hub monitoring servers
- Configure the hot standby feature for remote monitoring servers
- Configure the hot standby feature for monitoring agents
- Configure the hot standby feature for automation servers
The Tivoli Enterprise Automation Server supports hot standby when it is co-located with a Hub monitoring server that is configured for hot standby.
- Verify that failover support is working
- Self describing feature in a failover environment
In a Hot Standby failover environment, files required for the self describing feature are replicated to the standby monitoring server and audit records clearly indicate whether self describing installations at the standby hub are initiated by failover.
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