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Enable AVM Protection: By default this option is selected enabling the watchdog protocol on the AVM when high availability is enabled. For more information, refer to the Cisco Active Network Abstraction High Availability User’s Guide.

Note: It is highly recommended that the user does not disable this option if high availability is enabled.

Note: If this option is selected or unchecked when the AVM is up then you will need to restart the AVM in order for this change to take affect.

4.Define the properties of the AVM.

5.Click OK. The new AVM is added to the selected Sheer DNA Unit, is displayed in the Workspace, and is activated.

Creating the new AVM results in Sheer DNA providing the registry information of the new AVM in the specified Sheer DNA Unit, and the AVM can now host VNEs. For more information, refer to the section Defining VNEs on page 89.

6.2AVM Status

The status of AVMs (and VNEs) is affected by Admin and Oper mode. Admin mode is the administrative instructions that are sent to the AVM. Oper mode is the actual status of the AVM, for example, Up. For more information about Admin and Oper modes, refer to page 83.

When moving an AVM (file), its status, for example, Up or Down, has a bearing on whether the file is reloaded (Up) or not (Down). For more information about moving AVMs, refer to page 86. For more information about starting and stopping AVMs, refer to page 85.

An AVM can have only one of the following statuses at a time:

Up: The file (process) is reachable and was loaded and started. When a Start (command) option is issued, and no problems are encountered, such as an overloaded server, the AVM is running (has been loaded and started), and its status is Up.

Down: The file (process) is reachable and was stopped. When a Stop (command) option is issued, Sheer DNA issues instructions to shutdown all of the processes. When all of the processes have been stopped, the status of the AVM is Down.

Starting Up: When a Start or upload (command) option is issued, and for example, the Server cannot execute it due to the fact that it is busy or overloaded, the status of the AVM is Starting Up.

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3.5 specifications

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