Storage Mirroring Evaluation Guide

4.7 Monitoring failover

Now that failover monitoring is configured and started, you will need to know if and when there

is a problem. Since it can be essential to quickly know the status of your machines, HP OpenView

Storage Mirroring offers various methods for monitoring the status of failover. When the

Failover Control Center is running, you will see four visual indicators:

! The Failover Control Center Time to Fail counter

! The Failover Control Center status bar located at the bottom of the window

! The Failover Control Center colored bullets to the left of each IP address and source

machine

! The Windows desktop icon tray containing a failover icon

Colored Bullets Time to Fail Counter

Status Bar

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NOTE: You can minimize the Failover Control Center and, although it will not appear in your

Windows taskbar, it will still be active and the failover icon will still appear in the

desktop icon tray.

The Failover Control Center does not have to be running for failover to occur.