Automation of two HP SIM 5.1 or 5.2 servers to provide Failover Event Handling (44776-001, January 2009)

Creating the Watch Dog

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Now that we have created our Custom Event System combo

ollections, one set for City A and

another for City B, and we have also created our Add and Remove Event Handlers Custom Tools, we

can now create the Event Handler that provide

the watch dog serv

ice to indicate that the partner

CMS has failed and that the AddHandler event needs to created and turned on.

There are the 8 steps to creating an event handler to watch your other HP SIM server, create one on

each HP SIM server so that the CMS in City A

watch the CMS in City B and vice versa.

From the

Options Menu

select

Events

> Automatic Event Handling

> New Task