Enabling or Disabling High Availability (HA)

Enabling or Disabling High Availability (HA) Parent topic

Procedure

  1. Add a server in Virtual Mobile Infrastructure web console. Refer to the topic Adding a Server for the procedure.
  2. Open Terminal on the Virtual Mobile Infrastructure server, and log on with the user account: admin.
    Note
    Note
    To log on, use the root account password that you created during Virtual Mobile Infrastructure server installation.
  3. Type enable to enable privileged mode.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • To enable high availability, type the following command:
      ha enable <secondary server (eth0) IP address> <common IP>
      Note
      Note
      Replace <secondary server (eth0) IP address> with the IP address of the server that you want to configure as a secondary server, and replace <common IP> with a new unoccupied IP address of the same subnet.
      Important
      Important
      Both the primary server and secondary server must exist in the same subnet.
    • To disable high availability, type the following command:
      ha disable
  5. Press Enter.
    The HA on Virtual Mobile Infrastructure is enabled or disabled.
  6. Run the following command to verify the status of High Availability settings:
    ha status
    Note
    Note
    After enabling high availability, access the administrator Web console using the following format:
    https://<Common_IP_address>:8443

What to do next

If you have Secure Access installed and configured, reconfigure Secure Access to use the common IP address to access Virtual Mobile Infrastructure server. Refer to Configuring Secure Access for the procedure.