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Configure the hot standby feature for monitoring agents
Configure any monitoring agents that report directly to the hub monitoring server, the Warehouse Proxy Agent, and the Summarization and Pruning Agent to switch to a standby hub monitoring server when the Active hub monitoring server becomes unavailable. Configure all agents consistently by specifying the primary hub as the hub to which they connect and the secondary hub as the standby hub. Complete the following steps:
Procedure
- On the Manage Tivoli Monitoring Services window, right-click a monitoring agent, and click either Reconfigure (on Windows systems) or Configure (on UNIX systems).
- Select Optional: Secondary TEMS Connection, and specify the protocol for the standby monitoring server.
On UNIX agents, click Protocols to display a separate window where you can configure the standby server (secondary hub).
Figure 1 shows an example of a completed configuration window on Windows systems:Figure 1. Configuring a Windows monitoring agent to connect to a standby hub monitoring server
- Click OK.
- Enter the host name or IP address of the primary hub and the port number, and click OK.
- Enter the host name or IP address of the secondary hub, and click OK.
- Restart the monitoring agent.
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Configure failover support