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User Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.3
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Chapter 17 Configuring System Operations
Registering a Secondary Instance to a Primary Instance
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Table 17-6 System Operations: Deployment Operations Page
Option Description
Instance Status
Current Status Identifies the instance of the node you log into as primary or secondary, and identifies whether
you are running in local mode.
Primary Instance Hostname of the primary instance.
Primary IP IP address of the primary instance.
Registration (only active for an instance not running in Local Mode)
Primary Instance Hostname of the primary server that you wish to register with the secondary instance.
Admin Username Username of an administrator account.
Admin Password Password for the administrator’s account.
Hardware Replacement Check to enable a new or existing ACS instance hardware to re-register to a primary instance and
acquire the existing configuration already present in the primary instance. This is useful when an
instance fails and needs physical replacement.
Recovery Keyword Name of the instance that is to be replaced. This value is the hostname of the system that is being
replaced. After you submit this information, this instance connects to the primary instance.
The primary instance finds the associated ACS instance records based on the keyword, and marks
each record as registered.
Register to Primary Connects to the remote primary and registers the secondary instance to the primary instance.
Backup
Backup Backs up the current instance.
Local Mode
Admin Username Username of an administrator account.
Admin Password Password for the administrators account.
Reconnect
This option appears only
on the local mode node
and prompts you for
credentials.
Click Reconnect to reconnect to the primary instance.
Once you reconnect to the primary instance, you lose the configuration changes that you have
made to the local secondary instance.
If you want to retain the configuration changes that you have made to the local secondary
instance, you must:
1. Deregister the local secondary instance (this instance would become your new primary)
2. Deregister all the instances from the deployment.
3. Register all the instances to the new primary, whose configuration changes you want to retain.
Request Local Mode
This option appears only
on a registered secondary
page.
Request to place the secondary instance in local mode. This enables administrators to make
configuration changes only to this instance. Any changes made to the secondary instance are not
automatically updated when you reconnect to the primary instance. You must manually enter your
changes for the secondary instance.