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 Windows systems: Configuring the hot standby feature for hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server

IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

Configure the secondary hub


To configure the secondary hub to point to the primary hub as its backup or standby server:


Procedure

  1. On the Manage Tivoli Monitoring Services window on the Server that will contain the primary hub, right-click the name of the monitoring server that you are going to use as the secondary hub, and click Reconfigure.

    The monitoring server stops automatically.

  2. Complete the following steps on the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server Configuration window:

    1. Enter the name of the secondary hub in the TEMS Name field.

    2. Select the Configure Hot Standby TEMS check box to configure the primary hub as a standby server for the secondary hub.

    3. Specify the protocols used by the primary hub. These protocols must be the same for both monitoring servers (the primary hub and secondary hub).
      Figure 1 shows an example of a completed configuration window:

      Figure 1. Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server Configuration window: secondary hub configuration

    4. Click OK.

  3. On the Hub TEMS Configuration window, enter the host name or IP address of the secondary hub, and verify the communication settings for this server. Click OK.

  4. Select Configure Hot Standby.

  5. Click OK.

  6. On the Hub TEMS Configuration for hot standby window, specify the primary hub as the standby server for the secondary hub. Enter the host name or IP address of the primary hub in the Hostname or IP Address field, as shown in Figure 2.

    Figure 2. Specifying the primary hub as a backup or standby server for the secondary hub

  7. Click OK.

  8. Restart the monitoring server on the hub Primary server.


Parent topic:

On Windows systems: Configuring the hot standby feature for hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server

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