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Table Of Contents
- Administrator Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Server Protection
- Checking the Server Pair Status
- Monitoring the Status of Servers
- Configuring Heartbeat Settings
- Network Protection
- Application Protection
- Applications: Summary Tab
- Resetting the Application Health Status
- Viewing Application Status
- Setting the Application Timeout Exception
- Remove an Application
- Manually Stop and Start Applications
- Configuring Applications
- Application Maintenance Mode
- Reviewing the State of an Application
- Reviewing the Applications Log
- Filtering Application Log Entries
- Applications: Services Tab
- Applications: Tasks Tab
- Applications: Plug-ins Tab
- Applications: Summary Tab
- Status and Control
- About vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Working with Groups
- Working with Pairs in vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups
- Reviewing the Status of vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups and Pairs
- Exiting vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Shutting Down Windows Without Stopping vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Controlled Shutdown
- vSphere Web Client Plug-in
- Uninstalling vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Performance Protection
- Data Protection
- Alerts and Events
- Troubleshooting
- Two Active or Two Passive Servers
- Synchronization Failures
- Registry Status is Out-of-Sync
- Channel Drops
- Performance Issues
- Passive Server Does Not Meet Minimum Hardware Requirements
- Hardware or Driver Issues on VMware Channel NICs
- Firewall Connection
- Channel Fails to Connect After Configuring Firewall Ports
- Incorrect VMware Channel Configuration
- VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Packet Filter Is Enabled on the Channel NIC(s)
- Subnet or Routing Issues
- MaxDiskUsage Errors
- Application Slowdown
- Glossary
Viewing the User Accounts
Procedure
1 On the Applications: Task page, click User Accounts to invoke the User Accounts dialog and view the current
User accounts used to run tasks.
2 Click Close to exit the dialog.
Adding a User Account
Procedure
1 On the Applications: Tasks page, clickUser Accounts to invoke the User Accounts dialog.
2 Click Add to invoke the Add User dialog.
3 Type the name of the User, the associated Domain, and a Password into the corresponding text boxes.
4 Click OK.
Removing a User Account
Procedure
1 To remove a user, click User Accounts on the Applications: Tasks page to invoke the User Accounts dialog.
2 Select the user account from the list in the User Accounts dialog and click Remove.
A conrmation message appears.
3 Click Yes.
Applications: Plug-ins Tab
Plug-ins support specic applications and contain all of the components to protect the designated application.
Plug-ins start and stop the application, monitor the application, and provide all rules necessary to ensure that
application is available in the event of a failure by initiating a auto-switchover when congured.
Installing a Plug-in
vCenter Server Heartbeat allows you to install and upgrade plug-ins as needed to support applications.
Important Plug-ins should be installed only on the active server. Installation of a plug-in on a passive server
may cause an Exception to occur.
Procedure
1 Select the Applications: Plug-ins tab to open the Applications: Plug-ins page.
2 Right-click an existing plug-in and select Install from the menu or click Install at the top of the pane to
invoke the Install Plugin dialog.
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