Installation guide

Starting Configuration

SolarWinds Failover Engine is running on the secondary active server. Using

the System Tray icon, verify that the server status displays S/A. SolarWinds

Failover Engine is not running on the primary server which is set to passive.

Using the System Tray icon, verify that the server status displays -/- to indicate

that SolarWinds Failover Engine is not running.

Steps to Perform

Table 6: Perform the following steps to verify that data is synchronized

following Auto-switchover in a Pair configuration.

ResultsActivityMachine

SolarWinds Failover Engine successfully

starts.

Right-click the taskbar icon and select

Start SolarWinds Failover Engine .

primary

The System Overview screen is displayed.In the Servers pane of the SolarWinds

Failover Manager, select the server pair.

The Server: Summary page shows a

connection from the secondary server to the

primary server.

Navigate to the Server: Summary tab to

show the connection from the secondary

(active) to primary (passive).

Data replication resumes from the secondary

server back to the primary server. Both the

Select the Data: Replication tab and wait

for both the File System and the Registry

File System & Registry status become

Synchronized.

status to display as Synchronized.

Access the SolarWinds Failover Engine

logs and confirm that no exception errors

occurred during the synchronization

process.

Successful completion of this procedure leaves the SolarWinds Failover Engine

Pair in the state necessary to perform the final part of the Installation Verification

process, detailed in Exercise 3 - Switchover.

Exercise 3 - Switchover

The Switchover exercise demonstrates the ability to switch the functionality

and operations of the active server on command to the other server in the pair

using the SolarWinds Failover Engine. Perform this exercise only after

successfully completing the Auto-switchover and Data Verification Exercises.

44 - Installation Verification Testing

Installation Guide - SolarWinds Failover Engine