Secure Mobile Access 12.4 CMS Administration Guide
- Secure Mobile Access 12.4
- About This Guide
- CMS Configuration
- Introduction to CMS
- Installing and Configuring the Central Management Server
- Configuring Appliances for Central Management
- Using the Management Console Menus
- Central User Licensing
- Global High Availability
- Alerts and SNMP
- Capture Advanced Threat Protection
- Central FIPS Licensing
- Global High Availablity
- SonicWall Support
Adding a Standby Appliance to the CMS
Before you can configure an appliance to operate as a standby appliance, the appliance must be configured so that it is managed by the CMS. (See Enabling Central Management on SMA Appliance for instructions for doing this).
- In order to configure an SMA appliance as a standby appliance, there must be more than one SMA appliance in the CMS cluster.
- An active appliance with ongoing user sessions can be configured to become a standby appliance. Once the appliance becomes a standby appliance, new user connections to the GTO service name are no longer directed to that appliance.
- A standby appliance can be configured to become an active appliance by an administrator only from the Central Management Console.
To add a standby appliance to the CMS
- Navigate to Managed Appliances > Add/Remove.
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Click on the name of the appliance that you want to configure as a standby appliance.
The Edit Appliance Settings dialog displays.
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Select Standby appliance.
When you select Standby appliance, DNS authoritative server is automatically selected. Leave this option selected.
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Click Save.
This appliance will now start operating as a standby appliance and stop processing user connections until activated.
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