When using Ops Center Automator, you can increase reliability by setting up a failover management server using Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering.
Note: Ops Center Automator does not support installing in a cluster that spans multiple subnets.
When you use Ops Center Automator in a cluster environment, you designate one Ops Center Automator server as the active node and another as the standby node as follows:
- Active node
The active node is the host that is running services in a system that uses a cluster.
If a failure occurs, the cluster services implements a failover, and the standby node takes over running the system resources so that there is no interruption of services.
- Standby node
The standby node is the host that takes over running system resources from the active node if a failure occurs.
Note: If an active node fails over to the standby node, any tasks that are running fail and you must run the tasks again on the standby node.