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Chapter 17 Configuring System Operations

Registering a Secondary Instance to a Primary Instance

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Table 17-6 System Operations: Deployment Operations Page

Option	Description
Instance Status
Current Status	Identifies the instance of the node you log into as primary or secondary, and identifies whether
	you are running in local mode.
Primary Instance	Hostname of the primary instance.
Primary IP	IP address of the primary instance.
Registration (only active for an instance not running in Local Mode)
Primary Instance	Hostname of the primary server that you wish to register with the secondary instance.
Admin Username	Username of an administrator account.
Admin Password	Password for the administrator’s account.
Hardware Replacement	Check to enable a new or existing ACS instance hardware to re-register to a primary instance and
	acquire the existing configuration already present in the primary instance. This is useful when an
	instance fails and needs physical replacement.
Recovery Keyword	Name of the instance that is to be replaced. This value is the hostname of the system that is being
	replaced. After you submit this information, this instance connects to the primary instance.
	The primary instance finds the associated ACS instance records based on the keyword, and marks
	each record as registered.
Register to Primary	Connects to the remote primary and registers the secondary instance to the primary instance.
Backup

Backup

Backs up the current instance.

Local Mode

Admin Username	Username of an administrator account.
Admin Password	Password for the administrators account.
Reconnect	Click Reconnect to reconnect to the primary instance.
This option appears only	Once you reconnect to the primary instance, you lose the configuration changes that you have
on the local mode node	made to the local secondary instance.
and prompts you for	If you want to retain the configuration changes that you have made to the local secondary
credentials.
	instance, you must:

1.Deregister the local secondary instance (this instance would become your new primary)

2.Deregister all the instances from the deployment.

3.Register all the instances to the new primary, whose configuration changes you want to retain.

Request Local Mode	Request to place the secondary instance in local mode. This enables administrators to make
This option appears only	configuration changes only to this instance. Any changes made to the secondary instance are not
	automatically updated when you reconnect to the primary instance. You must manually enter your
on a registered secondary
page.	changes for the secondary instance.

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