Failover web console (explained)

The failover web console allows you to manage the failover cluster. You can access the failover web console from any computer that can reach the failover cluster.

To restrict access to the web console, Milestone recommends that you use HTTPS connection.

How you open the failover web console depends on the computer:

• On the primary and the secondary computer, double-click the icon of the XProtect Management Server Failover web console on your desktop

• On all other computers, type the URL of the failover web console in your browser: http://[computername.domainname]:9010 or https://[computername.domainname]:9453

  [Computername.domainname] is the FQDN of the primary or the secondary computer.

The primary and the secondary computers are represented as nodes. A module consists of two nodes: node1 corresponds to the computer you had selected as the primary computer when you configured the failover cluster, while node2 corresponds to the computer you had selected as the secondary computer.

From the failover web console, you can:

• View the status of the nodes

• Swap the state of the nodes

• Start or stop a node

• Identify the host name of a node

• See your license information

• View logs entries