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7.1.6 Cluster Settings
The Securepoint appliance offers the option to set up a high availability environment. For the
environment you need at least two appliances. One firewall will be used as active machine
(mMaster) and the other one (or more) as backup machine (slave) in standby. If a requisite
service or the complete master crashes, the slave machine assumes the control.
Define the range (in seconds) between the status messages of the master to the
slave in the field
Delay between advertisment packets
.
Decide how many messages may be missing, before the master is detected as
crashed. Type the number in the second field.
Enter a number into the field
Cluster ID
, to identify the cluster formation.
Enter a keyword for the encryption of the status messages into the field
Cluster Se-
cret
.
The option
Switch to master if possible
sets the appliance as master if it goes back
on stream.
The
Host Status
can be
offline
,
master
or
slave
.
If the status has the value master, the appliance can be made to spare with the button
Downgrade to spare
. A machine with slave status becomes the master.
fig. 39 tab Cluster Settings