Failover plug-in

Use this information to understand plug-in operation as well as configuration details associated with the plug-in.

Operation of the plug-in

There is no configuration information associated with this plug-in.The following diagram provides a brief summary of the operation of the Failover plug-in.
Figure 1. Operation of the Failover plug-in
Operation of the Failover plug-in
 1 Network Manager health check event is received
A Network Manager health check event is passed from the Event Gateway to the Failover plugin
 2  Failover request is generated
The Failover plugin converts the Network Manager health check event into an appropriate OQL statement for the Virtual Domain, ncp_virtualdomain, state.domains table.
 3  Failover request sent to Virtual Domain, ncp_virtualdomain
The OQL statement is run and this initiates failover or failback.

Required fields

This plug-in expects events supplied by the Event Gateway to have the Node field populated with the name of the affected Network Manager domain.

Event map subscriptions

This plug-in subscribes to the ItnmHealthChk event map.

The Failover plug-in subscribes to the following event states:
  1. Cleared
  2. Occurred
  3. ReAwakened
  4. ReCleared
  5. ReOccurred
  6. Resolution
  7. ReSync
This plug-in subscribes to the following event states:
  1. Information
  2. Occurred