- Launch the vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter Server that manages the virtual machine. On the Inventory view of the vCenter Server, in the left pane, select the virtual machine where you want to configure application monitoring. Then, in the right pane, select the Symantec High Availability tab.
- On the Symantec High Availability tab, click . This option is available only after a cluster has been configured. Unless you configure a cluster, you cannot configure an application for monitoring.
- On the Welcome panel of the Symantec High Availability Configuration wizard, review the pre-requisites and then click .
- On the Application Selection panel, select the application from the Supported Applications list and then click .
Alternatively, you can use the Search box to find the application and then click .
If you want to download any of the High Availability Agents, click the link to download the agents from the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) site.
https://sort.symantec.com/agents
- On the Configuration Inputs panel, select the VCS cluster systems on which you want to configure the application for high availability and move them to the Application failover targets list. The local system is selected by default.
Using the up-down arrow keys, you can define the priority order for the failover systems.
For each system that you assign as a failover target, you must specify the domain user account details in the appropriate fields on the Edit System dialog box. The VCS agents use these details to perform domain operations (such as Active Directory updates).
- On the Virtual Network Details panel, specify the virtual IP and the network details for the application to be configured and then click .
To specify the virtual IP and network details, select the IP protocol and then specify the following details for each failover system:
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You must select the same IP protocol as the one that was selected during the VCS cluster configuration. |
- On the Storage HA Inputs panel, specify the ESX/ESXi hosts and the administrative user account details for each host, and then click .
To specify the ESX/ESXi hosts, click and on the Add ESX/ESXi Host dialogue box, specify the following details:
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By default, the wizard sets up a communication link with the ESX/ESXi server. You can modify the configuration to set up the communication link with vCenter Server instead. To set up a link with a vCenter Server, you must modify the ESXDetails attribute after this application monitoring configuration workflow is complete.
See Modifying the ESXDetails attribute.
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- On the Configuration Summary panel, review the application configuration details.
The wizard assigns a unique name to the application service group. Click to rename the service group.
Click to initiate the application monitoring configuration.
- On the Implementation panel, the wizard performs the application configuration tasks.
The wizard displays the status of each task. After all the tasks are complete, click .
If the configuration tasks fail, click to check the details of the failure. Rectify the cause of the failure, and run the wizard again to configure application monitoring.
- On the Finish panel, click to complete the wizard workflow. This configures the application for high availability on the selected VCS cluster systems.
The Symantec High Availability view now displays the application status and its component dependency.
If the application status shows as not running, click to start the configured components on the system.