Users Manual

MDS 05-6399A01, Rev. G MDS™ Master Station 97
5.13 Redundancy
You may manage the behavior of a redundant Master Station. Navigate to System->Redun-
dancy. The Status tab shows the current relay switch status.
Figure 5-19 Redundancy Status menu
x Relay Switch Position (Forced A/Forced B/Automatic) – Shows the current state of the relay
card’s manual override switch.
Figure 5-20 Standby Equipped and Scheduled Failover
The Basic Config tab contains the Standby Equipped and Scheduled Failover menus.
x Standby Equipped – This feature is designed to alert users when a redundant master station
is experiencing a failure that may affect its ability to failover. When this feature is enabled, the
system will alarm if the Master Station is a redundant configuration, and either a single NIC or
a single power supply is detected.
x Scheduled Failover – Enabling this feature results in the unit performing automatic failover at
a user-defined interval. For example, scheduling a failover period of 720 minutes results in the
Master Station failing over automatically every 12 hours.