Administering the Secondary Screen

You usually do not change a configuration by administering the secondary Screen. If you connect to the secondary Screen and change the configuration, you are actually editing a different policy. The policy that you are editing is usually the one created during installation to allow the primary Screen to administer the secondary Screen. If you change the configuration on the secondary Screen, the primary and secondary Screens are no longer synchronized. If you do not break the HA cluster when you change the configuration, the changed configuration will be overwritten the next time you activate a policy on the primary Screen.

Connect to the secondary Screen only to do the following:

• Perform Solaris administration, such as adding patches

• Check the HA status of the Screen

• Manually failover the Screen

• Download logs that do not exist on the primary Screen. If the primary Screen was down, the logs exist only on the secondary Screen.

• Change the policy, if the primary Screen fails and is down for an extended period.