Create and manage S-TAP clusters

Learn how to define S-TAP clusters in Guardium that are useful for managing active-passive S-TAP cluster arrangements on your data servers.

About this task

S-TAP clusters and the Manage S-TAP clusters page are only available on Guardium central managers.

Procedure

  1. Open Manage > System View > Manage S-TAP Clusters.
    The page displays a table of S-TAP clusters with standard new, modify, and remove controls.
  2. Create a new S-TAP cluster by clicking the new icon to open the Add cluster dialog.
  3. From the Cluster details tab of the Add cluster dialog:
    1. Use the provided fields to enter a Cluster name, Cluster description, and Cluster IP.
    2. Optional: Enable Remove inactive S-TAP connections by cluster.
      When enabled, this option automatically removes S-TAPs from Guardium when S-TAPs are not connected and the S-TAPs are part of an S-TAP cluster with one (and only one) connected S-TAP. If there are no active S-TAPs or multiple active S-TAPs in a cluster, no S-TAPs are removed from Guardium. Clusters are checked at a predefined interval.
      Important: When S-TAPs are removed using Remove inactive S-TAP connections by cluster, they are not merely removed from the S-TAP cluster: they are entirely removed from the Guardium system.
    3. Optional: Enable Monitor S-TAP traffic by cluster.
      When enabled, this option changes how S-TAP traffic status is reported on the Deployment Health views: if one or more S-TAPs in the cluster has traffic, all S-TAPs in the cluster are reported as having traffic.
  4. From the Cluster members tab of the Add cluster dialog, use the new icon to add S-TAPs to the cluster.
    Manually enter an S-TAP IP address or host name, or use type-ahead functionality to select from existing S-TAPs.
    Note: S-TAPs may not be assigned to more than one S-TAP cluster.
  5. Click Save to create the new S-TAP cluster.
    If Remove inactive S-TAP connections by cluster is enabled (see step 3.b), you are required to provide additional confirmation before continuing.

Results

After creating S-TAP clusters, the Manage S-TAP Clusters table shows configuration summary for all S-TAP clusters. In addition:
  • The Deployment health table includes an S-TAPs by cluster tab where you can review health information organized by S-TAP cluster.
  • The Deployment health topology features S-TAP Cluster filters.
  • The S-TAP and GIM Dashboard displays an S-TAP clusters with recent traffic tile.