Installation guide

C HAPTER 11

Verifying the failover configuration

The final steps are to:

• Confirm McAfee

Network Security Sensors (Sensors) are communicating over the

heartbeat connection

• Test the failover setup

Confirming Sensor communication

Once the failover pair has been configured, failover peer status errors will appear on the

System Health Status page until you cable the heartbeat connection:

Figure 20: Faults of Type: Warning Message for the Manager

Item Description

1 Click link for specific fault detail.

2 Action buttons.

The status of the communication between the Sensors can be monitored on the

Sensors/View Details page of the Web-based user interface or directly from the CLI of

either Sensor.

The Sensors represented by the previous screenshot might therefore be properly cabled,

but just need to be rebooted.