This appears an architectural flaw in P-1 I guess. We see it all the time -
whenever a 'container' hosting Primary CMA's goes down, and the HA CMA's are
made active, upon Primary CMA's container coming back online, both the CMAs
remain active - leading to 'collision' status and we have to manually set it
right for 100's of CMAs.

Now coming to the global MDS level, both the Primary MDS Manager and
Secondary MDS Managers have similar architectural design as exists for the
CMAs at local level. I have seen the same behavior happen as you are seeing
at the MDS level in our env. Couple of things need be ensured:
1. What is the 'status' - is it in collision or synchronized? You need to
ensure if any changes that were made on Sec Manager have been sync'd to
Primary.
2. Once that is ensured, log into your Primary Manager MDS global view,
right click on the Secondary Manager and change to 'standby'.

We had raised this question w/ CP earlier and there is no solution to the
problem when the Primaries' elements go down. One has to manually fix them
unless there is something in NGX (some version), they have changed the
design.

Hope this helps.

Rajeev

On 7/15/07, cisco4ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a P-1 question for gurus in the forum.

I have the following:

P-1 NGx R61 with hfa_01 PRIMARY MANAGER on SPLAT.
The ip address of this box is 192.168.1.9/24.
Hostname of this box is LAB-Mgr

P-1 NGx R61 with hfa_01 SECONDARY MANAGER on SPLAT.
The ip address of this box is 192.168.1.7/24.
Hostname of this box is LAB-Mgr-Sec

P-1 NGx R61 with hfa_01 CONTAINER on SPLAT.
The ip address of this box is 192.168.1.10/24.
Hostname of this box is LAB-Cntr

Everything is running EVAL license.

User(s) can log into P-1 via MDG. Everyone
is logging into the MDG via the Primary Manager.
Under the High Availability, it shows that
the LAB-Mgr is Active and the LAB-Mgr-Sec is
"standby".

For testing purposes, I reboot the LAB-Mgr box
Now everyone logs into the P-1 via the LAB-Mgr-Sec
and under the "High Availability", it shows
the LAB-Mgr-Sec as "Active".

When the LAB-Mgr comes back online, it also
shows as "Active" as well, and it remains
that way for the past 3 days now.  In other words,
I have both LAB-Mgr and LAB-Mgr-Sec are both
showing as "active".  By the way, I only have
2 CMAs on the container LAB-Cntr box.

Does it mean I have a problem because both
Manager boxes show up as "active/active" instead
of "active/standby"?

All of these boxes are connected to the same switch
and they are also on the same network so latency
can not be an issue, right?

Can someone with P-1 experience explain this?

Thanks.






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