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Setting Up and Operating the ePortal Specialty Engine
By default, the ISM-0 ePortal Specialty Engine is configured as the active ePortal system
and the ISM-1 ePortal Specialty Engine is configured as the standby ePortal system which
is used during a failover only when ISM-0 fails or the ePortal Specialty Engine of ISM-0
fails.
The active and standby ePortal system can be determined by checking the Name field of
the controller from the ePortal Manager website. The active ePortal system should have
the -Active suffix (for example, EP0-Active or EP1-Active) in the Controller Name
field and the standby ePortal system should have the -Standby suffix (for example,
EP0-Standby or EP1-Standby) in the Controller Name field.
You can also determine the active ePortal system from the Component View tab of the
MCP Console by checking the Host Name property when you select ePortal under the
components ISM and s-Par ® . As mentioned previously, the active ePortal system has the
suffix -Active as a suffix in the Host Name field.
The ePortal Manager is configured with the following default setting:
• ISM-0 ePortal Manager is configured to use IP address 192.168.222.190 and the
name EP0-Active. The MCP backend server IP address is set to
192.168.223.250.
• ISM-1 ePortal Manager is configured to use IP address 192.168.222.191 and the
name EP1-Standby. The MCP backend server IP address is set to
192.168.224.250.
Whenever configuration changes (for example, deploying a new application, modifying
virtual server or personality module, modifying controller or back-end server configuration,
and so on) are made on the active ePortal system, you must create a new backup. During
the failover, the standby ePortal system uses the latest backup on the active ePortal
system to restore the ePortal configuration. If the backup is not up to the date on the
active ePortal system, you lose any changes since the last backup when a failover occurs
from the active ePortal system to the standby ePortal system.
ePortal generates the following warning alert on the Management website if the
configuration is changed. Also, a new backup should be generated:
Need to generate a new backup
In addition, the MCP back-end server usercode and password must be configured the
same on both the active and standby ePortal systems for a successful failover
ISM-0 ePortal to ISM-1 ePortal Failover Transition
In the event of an ISM-0 failure or ePortal Specialty Engine of ISM-0 failure while the
ePortal Specialty Engine of ISM-0 is an active ePortal system, perform the following steps
to recover the ePortal environment into the ePortal Specialty Engine of ISM-1:
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