User interface details

The failover web console consists of two main tabs:

Control

On the Control tab, you can view the following:

Tab	Description
Resources	View the resources status of the module. Place the mouse cursor over the resource name to get the internal name of the resource.
Module Log	Read the execution log of the module. Set or clear the verbose log’s checkbox to display the short log (with only E messages) or the verbose log (all messages including debug ones).
Application Log	Read application output messages of start and stop scripts. These messages are saved on the server side in SAFEVAR/modules/AM/userlog.ulog (where AM is the module name).
Commands Log	Display the commands that have been executed on the node (commands applied on the module and all global commands).
Information	Check the server level and the module configuration.

On the Module Log, Application Log, and Commands Log tabs, click on the refresh button to get the last messages or on the save button to save the log locally.

You can view and manage the nodes on both tabs from the Cluster Configuration panel.

Cluster options

From the left-hand panel, you can:

Start or stop nodes and perform other actions. See also Node actions.
See the state of a node. See also Node states.
See the data synchronization status of a node. See also Node data synchronization statuses.

The control panel consists of four columns:

Node actions menu shows the options to change the state of a node.
Node1 and node2 : node1 corresponds to the computer you selected as the primary computer, while node2 corresponds to the computer you selected as the secondary computer.
Node state column shows the current state of a node.
The node data synchronization status column shows the current data synchronization status of a node. The column is not available when the failover cluster is connected to external SQL Server.

Node actions

Option	Description
Start	Start a node.
Stop	Stop a node.
Restart	Restart a node.
Swap	Swap the states of the nodes.
Expert	Stop and start a node, swap without data sync, force start or estimate the data sync.
Admin	Configure boot start, suspend or resume the error detection of module processes, start or stop all checkers, and set failover to on or off.
Support	Save logs, dumps, or snapshots for troubleshooting.

Node states

Tab	Description
PRIM	The data replicates from this node.
SECOND	The data replicates to this node.
ALONE	No data replication. The node acts as a single unit.
STOP	The node stopped, and no redundancy is available.
WAIT	(Transient) The node is starting up (magenta) or waiting for the availability of a resource (red).

State colors

Tab	Description
Green	The node is available.
Magenta	The node status is transient.
Red	The node is unavailable.

Node data synchronization statuses

Tab	Description
uptodate	The replicated files are up-to-date.
not uptodate	The replicated files are not up-to-date.
connection error	Cannot connect to the node.
not configured	The configuration is missing from the node.