High Availability setup for Managing Nodes

[MattAnderson]

Testing HA on 11.6 in my lab and trying to setup the config between two managers.  Based on the documentation I'm reading there doesn't appear to be a way to do this via the Web unless I have a manager of managers to config them from.  Is this true?  Also, I have performed the setup manually and it shows "Waiting for synchronization status" on the web page but I see no activity on the sync port of 1970 using Wireshark.  The HA tasks are running on the Prognosis config for both servers and the Windows Firewall is disabled.  Do I need to update the secondary server's HA config as well?  I copied the setup from the Primary with no luck.  The Secondary server states the following via the web:

Warning! The Prognosis node is currently not active. Please add any systems on the active node

Any guidance would be appreciated. 

[LindaYu]

Hi MattAnderson,

Your understanding is correct that a manager node is needed to setup HA on a given pair. We use this manager node for all HA paring.

The "waiting for Sync status" is to wait for HA state from the HA pair, and this should take a minute or so.
If Manual Configuration is attempted, these steps must be performed on both servers in the HA Pair
https://help.prognosis.com/prognosis/116/configuration-for-ha-using-the-web-application-13599699.htm...

HTH

[GeraldC1]

Hi Matt,

That's correct. It needs a manager of managers for HA between managing nodes. Here's a diagram.

HTH

[MattAnderson]

Thank you.  I'll try it with a MOM and see how that works.