Fail over with HP SIM 7.3 - Watch dog service?

[mitchtin]

Hi,

I have installed a CMS servers and accompanying DB server at one data center and another CMS server and DB at a secondary data center.

They both have fresh, unconfigured installs of HP SIM on each CMS server. The servers are not clustered at all.

I want to know, how do I set up failover between the servers at each data center, does 7.3 include the watch dog service capability? what are my options here and how is it done?

Thanks,

Mitch

[Brad Cunningham]

You can view the following white paper on how to configure this

Automating Failover Event Handling on Two
HP Systems Insight Manager Servers White
Paper

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=489496&docId=emr_na-c02049572&docLocale=en_US

What this fails over is really just the event handler. This will prevent duplicate emails/actions when a event of interest occurs

All devices will  need to be discovered in both servers.

[Andrew_Haak]

Sim is still supported in a Windows cluster, is that an option for you?

look at http://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=hp%20sim%20clustering&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fh20566.www2.hp.com%2Fhpsc%2Fdoc%2Fpublic%2Fdisplay%3FdocId%3Demr_na-c03225519&ei=2bOEVM7sGYusUYfNgxA&usg=AFQjCNGrXEfGvfV48aOpWa_sR4gKoMficw&bvm=bv.80642063,d.d24

for the PDF.