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For the Back-end Servers:
■Accounting Server—restart 3Com Accounting service on IP Telephony
Manager, or stop and start 3Com VoIP Accounting Data service applet on
the Windows NT machine.
■Directory Mapping Server—restart 3Com Directory service on IP Telephony
Manager, or stop and start 3Com VoIP Directory Data service applet on the
Windows NT machine.
■Provisioning Server—restart MS web server on IP Telephony Manager, or
stop and start World Wide Web Publishing service applet on the Windows
NT machine.
Setting Manual Switchovers You can force the Gatekeeper to manually switch-over to another Accounting,
Directory Mapping, or Authentication Server.
To set the manual switchover:
1Using IP Telephony Manager, open the Media Gateway chassis.
2Click File, and then click Open.
3Select the Gatekeeper you are configuring from the Device List. If the
Gatekeeper is not listed, see Connecting to Entities in Chapter 1.
4Click OK.
5Select the server graphic.
6Click Actions/Commands from the Configuration menu.
7When prompted to select an entity, click 3Com Gatekeeper in the list box,
and then click OK.
The Command Tool dialog box appears.
8Click Switchover Commands in the Category drop-down list.
9From the Command to Execute drop-down list select Switch Accounting,
Switch Directory, or Switch Authentication.
10 Enter the IP address of the new server in the Command Specific Parameter
field.
11 Click Execute and wait for a successful completion of the command.
The server switch-over has been set.
12 Repeat steps 10 through 12 for each server type to manually switchover.
13 Click Close.
A real time table appears and displays the selected Media Gateway and the
Gatekeeper to which it is registered. The IP address is of the Gatekeeper to
which it is registered is also displayed.