VIP Status
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Overview
This document details how to check the VIP Status on a PINsafe appliance. For information on VIP configuration see VIP on PINsafe Appliances
Prerequisites
PINsafe appliance
Heartbeat Status
PINsafe VIP Status Check through the CMI
On each PINsafe Appliance in the cluster (Primary Master, Standby Master, but not DR)
1. Login to the PINsafe Command Management Interface (See Getting Started Basic CMI configuration)
2. Select Heartbeat
3. Select Status
4. Check VIP is on the expected server (usually always on the primary
If the Primary appliance is shutdown, the VIP should fail across to the Standby appliance.
PINsafe VIP status check through the command line
From the command line run the following:
service heartbeat status
- If it's not started you'll get something like:
[admin@standby ~]# service heartbeat status heartbeat is stopped. No process
- If it is started you'll get something like:
[admin@standby ~]# service heartbeat status heartbeat OK [pid 6855 et al] is running on standby.swivel.local [standby.swivel.local]...
Testing
Shutdown Primary Master, observe VIP on Standby, start Primary Master, observe VIP on Primary and Standby
Known Issues
Troubleshooting
Heartbeat will not start see Heartbeat issues
