6.5

Adding a New Connection
The Add Connection feature in the vCenter Server Heartbeat Console allows you to add a new Pair Connection
to an existing vCenter Server Heartbeat Group.
Procedure
1 In the navigation panel, select the vCenter Server Heartbeat Group to receive the new connection. Click
Add Connection in the tool bar, select Add Connection from the File menu, or right-click an existing group
in the navigation panel and select Add Connection to invoke the Add Connection dialog.
2 Type the Host Name or IP address for the new connection into the text box, select the Port Number (if dierent
from the default value of 52267), and select a group from the Add to Group drop-down list (to add the
connection to a Group other than the one currently selected).
3 Click the Alternate IPs button to add additional IPs for the server. Click OK.
Note The Add Connection dialog allows you to add additional Management IP addresses to the connection
for the server. In the event that the main IP address becomes unavailable, the vCenter Server Heartbeat
Console will attempt to use the alternate IP addresses to connect to vCenter Server Heartbeat.
The newly created connection appears in the navigation panel on the left of the vCenter Server Heartbeat
Console window and vCenter Server Heartbeat Console attempts to connect to the server. You may be
prompted to accept a secure connection certicate from the server. This allows the communications between
vCenter Server Heartbeat Console and the server to be encrypted. To accept the certicate, click OK.
4 You may be prompted for credentials that allow you to have access to the server. Typically you will be
asked for these credentials the rst time you connect from a particular client system. If so, enter a Username
that has administrator rights on the server that you are connecting to, enter the Password, and click OK.
Once you have connected to a particular server and have a valid secure connection certicate, the next
time you use vCenter Server Heartbeat Console on this client system it will automatically connect to the
server. If the certicate expires or becomes invalid, the connection may be removed from vCenter Server
Heartbeat Console requiring you to reconnect and accept the new certicate. If the IP address of the client
system changes, you may have to re-enter the username and password credentials.
Note The Server: Summary page updates to represent any existing network relationships of the added
server.
5 Enter the remaining connections necessary to dene the new vCenter Server Heartbeat Group.
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