Hi All,
We have an end-user setting up a Failover configuration, however their Backup agent does not seem to acquire the Virtual IP automatically after a failover switch.
Note that it can still be reached via it's individual IP (and functions correctly, going into standby mode when the main agent is offline) when it's online. The main agent can be reached via both it's interfaces when it's online as it does acquire the virtual IP properly.
Any tips on how to set up the Virtual IP acquisition properly?
Cheers,
Did you by any chance hard-code the VIP as an IP on the interface? We have seen this behavior if we accidentally hard-coded the IP on the interface. Make sure that only the individual IP's are set. In order for the DMA to find out which one it should take as active, i usually stop both DMA's inlcuding SLNet; have one startup completely (with the other one still shutdown) and once it's fully online start the failover pair.
Usually like that they fight it out and you will have one DMA with the VIP and the other one without.
If the above still does not work, try to recreate your failover settings...