Discovery on passive devices

[chowdhary]

Hi,

Are passive devices discovered by Servicenow discovery and if so how? (passive devices which are used for failover purposes). Also if two devices(active and passive) have same IP how can we differentiate active and passive devices that are discovered?

Best Regards

Chowdhary

[JBark]

Are you referring to a active/passive cluster? Each node would have to have a different IP address, while the cluster IP would again be a different IP. Each node would be discovered, but the cluster IP would return whatever information that the active node reported and would error out.

[JBark]

Sorry, I misspoke, Windows Clusters are a different class and do get discovered with some very nice info on disks and cluster virtual IP addresses.

[chowdhary]

Hi Jeffery,

The devices are core switches used for failover purpose. When I ran discovery I am able to discover only one which is active. Also I am unable to figure out exactly which one(active or passive) is being discovered as the IP and FQDN are same for both devices.

Best Regards

Chowdhary

[JBark]

When you use the word passive, does that mean offline? Or are the switches behind a VIP address?