IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2 > Installation Guides > High Availability Guide for Distributed Systems > The hot standby option > Configure failover support > Configure the hot standby feature for hub monitoring servers > On Linux or UNIX systems: Configuring the hot standby feature for hub monitoring servers
IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Configure the primary hub
About this task
Install two hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Servers and then complete the following steps to configure the primary hub to point to the secondary hub as its backup or standby server:
Procedure
- On the Manage Tivoli Monitoring Services window on the server which contains the Hub Primary, right-click the name of the monitoring server that you are going to use as the primary hub, and click Configure.
- Click the Advanced Settings tab.
- Select Specify Hot Standby.
- Type the host name of the secondary hub in the Standby TEMS Site field.
- Select the type of protocol to use for hot standby. This should be the same protocol on both the primary hub and the secondary hub.
- If you specified any backup protocols for the primary hub, specify identical protocols for the secondary hub.
- Click Save.
- Stop and restart the monitoring server.
Parent topic:
On Linux or UNIX systems: Configuring the hot standby feature for hub monitoring servers