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will fail over administrative traffic to the other interface. As a last resort,

Matrix Server will fail over the traffic to an interface that discourages

administrative traffic.

Virtual Hosts

A virtual host is created on a set of network interfaces. These network

interfaces must be enabled for virtual hosting. By default, all network

interfaces are enabled; however, you can disable a network interface if

you do not want it to carry virtual host traffic.

Network Interfaces and the Management Console

When Matrix Server is started, the ClusterPulse daemon probes the

servers in the matrix to locate network interfaces and then adds the

interfaces to its configuration file. The Servers window on the

Management Console shows the network interfaces for each server as

defined in this file. (Because there can be stale information in the

configuration file, the Servers window may not match your current

network configuration exactly.)

Each network interface is labeled “Hosting Enabled” or “Hosting

Disabled,” which indicates whether it can be used for virtual hosts.

The Management Console uses the following icons to specify whether the

network interface allows or discourages administrative traffic.

The network interface allows administrative traffic.

The network interface discourages administrative traffic.