Clicking the Control option will take you to the screen shown below.
The Machine and Server Control screen can be used to perform the following operations:
START Service
RESTART Service
STOP Service
REBOOT Machine
SHUTDOWN Machine
FAILOVER Machine
FAILOVER to Secondary WAN Interface
FAILBACK to Primary WAN Interface
To perform an operation, click the button for the desired operation and then click OK. If you want to clear your selection, click the Reset button.
Any selection made from this page will present a confirmation screen that describes the selected operation and its consequences. Clicking on Cancel will send you back to the previous page, while Continue will complete the operation and display its results.
The FAILOVER Machine option will only be enabled if Hardware Failover (also known as Redundant Hardware) has been configured for this Location gateway. Selecting this option will cause the Location gateway hardware to alternate between which Location gateway is currently Active and which is Standby.
The FAILOVER to Secondary WAN Interface and FAILBACK to Primary WAN Interface options will be available only if the Dual WAN feature has been configured for this Location gateway. Only one option will be selectable at a time, depending on which WAN interface (primary or secondary) is currently active. When you select FAILOVER to Secondary WAN Interface and click Submit, the Corente Gateway Service will restart and attempt to use the secondary WAN interface as its WAN connection. The secondary WAN interface will remain the active WAN interface until the secondary WAN interface fails, the gateway is restarted, or you return to this page and use the FAILBACK to Primary WAN Interface option. Use of the secondary WAN interface is not static upon restart of the Location gateway service or hardware. When the service or hardware is started, restarted, or rebooted, the Location gateway will attempt to detect both WAN interfaces, and will always attempt to use the primary WAN interface first. If both the primary and secondary WAN connections are unusable, the Location gateway will continuously reboot until one of the WAN connections is functional. The WAN interface that is currently in use will be displayed at the top of the Active Corente Gateway WAN Interface table. For more information on the Dual WAN feature, refer to the Corente Services Policy Definition and Provisioning manual.
Executing any of the operations on this page (except START Gateway Service) will cause an interruption of the Corente Virtual Services Gateway Service for this location. This location will be disconnected from the service and any in-progress communications over the Corente network will be interrupted. Consequently such operations should be planned for off hours.
Performing these operations on an Inline Location gateway has additional implications because of the additional services that an Inline Location gateway can provide. For example, the Firewall state and Internet Connection Sharing state of the Location gateway will be maintained when you STOP Gateway Software. SHUTDOWN or REBOOT of an Inline Location gateway will interrupt the LAN gateway function that this machine performs. This means that all communications between machines on the private network will be disabled, as well as communication with machines in any location on the public network.
The Corente Services Control Point (SCP) sends incremental updates to all Corente Virtual Services Gateways containing their personality configurations. These updates do not contain the full partner list for a Location gateway; they contain only the specific changes that have been made to the partner list. If the partner list for a Location gateway appears incorrect, an option is available to send a full partner list to the Location gateway.
To request an update of the partner list from the
Corente SCP , select any of the options listed on the
Control page. When you select Submit, another screen will appear
that asks if you would like to resend the configuration
information. If you select the option Force
<Location gateway
name> to refresh entire partner list
upon reconnection to the Corente SCP and then click
Continue, the entire partner list will be re-sent to your
Location gateway as soon as the Location gateway is able to
connect with the Corente SCP.