Symantec 10521146 Administration Guide - Page 287

Advanced configuration 287 Establishing high availability failover Launching from a known location This section describes how to launch the Symantec Decoy Server console from a known location on the network. To launch the Symantec Decoy Server console from a known location 1 Right-click any external sensor object in the topology tree, and click Start Decoy Console. 2 In Start Decoy Console, click Yes to confirm the path to the mtadmin.jar file. Note: The Symantec Decoy Server console must be closed independently of the Network Security console. The Symantec Decoy Server console remains open, even if you close the Network Security console. Note: SuperUsers and Administrators can add Smart Agents to launch Symantec Decoy Server; all users can launch it after configuration. See "User groups reference" on page 319 for more about permissions. Establishing high availability failover Symantec Network Security provides a number of ways to recover from network, communication, or process failures. The Availability Monitor keeps track of each node on the network and notifies you if the node fails or becomes unavailable. The Watchdog Process Restart parameter keeps track of processes on a single node. If a process fails, the failure recovery feature notes the failure and takes action to restart that process. Failover groups, configured with the watchdog parameters, ensure detection coverage even if a node should fail. This section describes these topics in greater detail: ■ Monitoring node availability ■ Configuring availability for single nodes ■ Configuring availability for multiple nodes ■ Configuring watchdog processes Monitoring node availability Symantec Network Security provides the Availability Monitor to keep track of each node on the network and notify you if the node fails or becomes unavailable. The Availability Monitor attempts to connect to each node at