Network agents

Network agents make your IP addresses and computer names highly available.

Agent
Description
  • NIC
Monitors a NIC (Network Interface Card)
Monitors an IP address .
  • MultiNICA
Monitors multiple network interfaces.
  • IPMultiNIC
Manages the virtual IP address configured as an alias on an interface of a MultiNICA resource.
  • MultiNICB (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris)
Monitors multiple network interfaces.
  • IPMultiNICB (AIX, HP-UX. Solaris)
Configures and manages virtual IP addresses (IP aliases) on an active network device specified by the MultiNICB resource.
  • DNS
Updates and monitors the canonical name (CNAME) mapping in the domain name server when failing over applications across subnets (performing a wide-area failover.)