Manager

Monitoring redundancy

On the upper right corner of the screen, the icon worddava5870bf073b28787e607c42804abe8c5.png appears once the redundancy pool has been configured.

The icon may take different colors to indicate degraded state or failure:

worddava8470ea333ffcec5b0e211d587a27893.png Degraded state

worddavb7b77d389f2d464bb4ea636886f2e6d5.png Failure

  • One server is unreachable.

  • Manager operations are still possible.

  • 2 servers are unreachable.

  • Manager operations are no longer possible.

Moving the mouse over the icon displays the status of servers:

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Displayed Status

Meaning

Master Manager

Primary

Nominal status

Online

Status indicating that communication is impossible with both Backup Manager and Redundancy Arbiter. 
Manager operations are not possible. 

Unreachable

Connection problem or Manager not operational 

Backup Manager

Online

Nominal status 

Primary

Acts as a Master Manager since the initial Master
Manager is unreachable and as long as it’s unreachable (case “active / passive” has been set) or continue to act as Master Manager (case active / passive” has been clear) when initial Master has recovered.

Unreachable

Connection problem or Manager not operational

Redundancy Arbiter

Online

Nominal status

Unreachable

Connection problem or Arbiter not operational

The following diagrams illustrate possible cases:

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Backup Manager has Primary status as long as Master Manager is not operational

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Note

  • The Backup Manager has read-write access to the database, and a full user interface.

  • Field Units are disconnected from Master server.

  • When the Autoconnect mode is enabled on field units, field units reconnect to the Backup Manager automatically. If not, field units must be reconnected manually. 

Failure on both Backup Manager and Redundancy Arbiter

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Note

  • The Master Manager database is in read-only mode.  

  • Field units cannot connect to servers.  

  • Intercom is not available.

  • The user interface is lightened.