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(config) central-manager
Note We recommend that you upgrade your standby WAAS Central Manager first and then upgrade your
primary WAAS Central Manager. We also recommend that you create a database backup on your primary
WAAS Central Manager and copy the database backup file to a safe place before you upgrade the
software.
Switching a WAAS Central Manager from Warm Standby to Primary
If your primary WAAS Central Manager becomes inoperable, you can manually reconfigure one of your
warm standby WAAS Central Managers to be the primary WAAS Central Manager. Configure the new
role by using the global configuration central-manager role primary command as follows:
WAE# configure
WAE(config)# central-manager role primary
This command changes the role from standby to primary and restarts the management service to
recognize the change.
Caution If you switch a warm standby WAAS Central Manager to primary while your primary WAAS Central
Manager is still online and active, both WAAS Central Managers detect each other, automatically shut
themselves down, and disable management services. The WAAS Central Managers are switched to
halted, which is automatically saved in flash memory. For information about how to return halted WAAS
Central Managers to an online status, see the Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration
Guide.
Caution When you switch a WAAS Central Manager from primary to standby, the configuration on the Central
Manager is erased. The Central Manager, after becoming a standby, will begin replicating its
configuration information from whichever Central Manager is now the primary. If standby and primary
units are not synchronized before switching roles, important configuration information can be lost.
Before you use this command, see the Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide.
Examples The following example specifies that the WAAS device named waas-cm is to function as the primary
WAAS Central Manager for the WAAS network:
waas-cm(config)# central-manager role primary
The following example specifies the WAE should register with the WAAS Central Manager that has an
IP address of 10.1.1.1. This command associates the WAE with the primary WAAS Central Manager so
that the WAE can be approved as a part of the WAAS network.
WAE(config)# central-manager address 10.1.1.1
The following example configures a new GUI port to access the WAAS Central Manager GUI:
WAE(config)# central-manager ui port 8550
The following example configures the WAAS Central Manager as the standby WAAS Central Manager:
WAE(config)# central-manager role standby
Switching CDM to standby will cause all configuration settings made on this CDM to be
lost.
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