Configuring an Active/Passive Cluster

Overview

Pulse One appliances support two-node Active/Passive clustering configuration for high availability.

In a two node Active/Passive cluster:

•The Active Pulse One node services all requests.

•The Passive node is a “hot” standby and maintains a copy of the Active node’s data. That is, its appliance configuration, system state, and log messages.

•Active/Passive clustering supports automatic failover in the event of the failure of an Active node. Manual failover is also supported, see Failover Scenarios.

All cluster configuration is performed using the Pulse One Command-Line Interface (CLI). The CLI can also be used to monitor the state of the cluster.

The status of the cluster, the status of the current Active node and the automatic failover switch state are always displayed in the Pulse One graphical user interface. Refer to the Pulse One Appliance Administration Guide.

The two nodes in the cluster must run the same version of Pulse One.

The cluster does not interact with Pulse Policy Secure Profiler.