HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage System - Agile Fusion Manager Failover Best Practices
Information
X9000 users might not wait long enough for agile Fusion Manager failover to complete. They might give up in the process and claim that agile Fusion Manager is not failing over to the passive agile Fusion Manager node properly.
Details
Please note that it takes a while for the agile Fusion Manager failover to complete. The best approach to test agile Fusion Manager failover is as follows :
Verify that one has at least two registered agile Fusion Managers:
[root@fsn01 ~]# ibrix_fm -f  NAME             IP ADDRESS  ---------------  ----------  fsn01            172.xx.x.1  fsn02            172.xx.x.2
Switch to fsn01 .
Place agile FM active on fsn01 with the following command:
# ibrix_fm -m active
Switch to fsn02
Place agile FM passive on fsn02 with the following command:
# ibrix_fm -m passive
Switch to node fsn01 .
Ensure agile FM is active with the following command :
# ibrix_fm -i
It should be. So, attempt a failover by placing agile FM in maintenance mode on fsn01 with the following command:
# ibrix_fm -m maintenance
The failover can take a while, but proceed with switching to fsn02 .
Then repeatedly issue the following command to verify the state:
# ibrix_fm -i
At some stage the agile FM will become active on fsn02 .
This usually works perfectly fine and agile Fusion Manager will complete failover within 1 to 2 minutes.