Click Monitor Connections from the main Double-Take Console toolbar. The Monitor Connections page allows you to view information about your connections. You can also manage your connections from this page.
The top pane displays high-level overview information about your connections.
Column | Description |
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The first blank column indicates the state of the connection.
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Connection | The name of the connection |
Source Server | The name of the source |
Target Server | The name of the target |
Replication Set | The name of the replication set |
Activity | There are many different Activity messages that keep you informed of the connection activity. Most of the activity messages are informational and do not require any administrator interaction. If you see error messages, check the connection details. |
Mirror Status |
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Replication Status |
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Transmit Mode |
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You can filter the connections displayed in the top pane using the toolbar buttons in that pane.
Toolbar Item | Description |
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Leave the Monitor Connections page and open the View Connection Details page |
Filter | Select a filter option from the drop-down list to only display certain connections. You can display Healthy Connections, Connections with warnings, or Connections with errors. To clear the filter, select All connections. |
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Display only connections with warnings |
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Display only connections with errors |
Type a server name | Only those servers that contain the entered text will be displayed |
The details displayed in the bottom pane of the Monitor Connections page will depend on the type of protection workload that is highlighted in the top pane.
Detail Item | Description |
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Name | The name of the server |
Activity | There are many different Activity messages that keep you informed of the connection activity. Most of the activity messages are informational and do not require any administrator interaction. If you see error messages, check the connection details. |
Source server | The name of the source |
Target server | The name of the target |
Bytes sent | The total number of mirror and replication bytes that have been transmitted to the target |
Bytes sent compressed | The total number of compressed mirror and replication bytes that have been transmitted to the target. If compression is disabled, this statistic will be the same as Bytes sent. |
Connected since | The date and time indicating when the current connection was made. This field is blank, indicating that a TCP/IP socket is not present, when the connection is waiting on transmit options or if the transmission has been stopped. This field will maintain the date and time, indicating that a TCP/IP socket is present, when transmission has been paused. |
Protection type | The type of workload protection |
Hypervisor | The type of target virtual server host |
Protection status | The status of the workload protection |
Protected volumes | The volumes that are being protected |
Target datastore or Target path | The location on the target where the source replica is being stored |
Automatic failover | Indicates if failover will be automatic and the number of retries that have been attempted if the source is unresponsive |
The connection controls available in the bottom pane of the Monitor Connections page will depend on the type of protection workload that is highlighted in the top pane.
Toolbar Item | Description |
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Opens the Protection Summary page |
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Removes configuration information for the selected protection If you no longer want to protect the source and no longer need the replica of the source on the target, select the appropriate delete option when prompted. The option name will vary depending on your workload type. Selecting this option will remove the connection and completely delete the replica virtual machine on the target. If you no longer want to mirror and replicate data from the source to the target but still want to keep the replica of the source on the target, select the appropriate keep option when prompted. The option name will vary depending on the your workload type. For example, you may want to use this option to relocate the virtual hard disks and create a new job between the original source and the new location. Selecting this option, will preserve and register the source replica on the target, provided it has been fully synchronized. If the source replica is not fully synchronized, related files will be kept on the target but will not be registered. |
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Enables protection for the selected protection If you have previously stopped protection, the virtual hard disks on the target will be checked. If they are the same as the source, replication only (no mirroring) will begin. If they are not the same but there is a file on the target, a difference mirror will begin. If you have previously paused protection, the protection job will resume where it left off. |
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Pause the selected protection |
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Stops the selected protection |
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Initiate failover by shutting down the source and starting the replica of the source on the target |
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For some workload types, you can undo failover after it has occurred. This resets the servers and the job back to their original state. |
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For some workload types, you can reverse the protection. The connection will start mirroring in the reverse direction with the connection name and log file names changing accordingly. After the mirror is complete, the job will continue running in the opposite direction. |
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Displays the most recent error associated with the selected protection |