/cfg/sys/aws
Configuring AWS Parameters
Alteon VA supports HA mode in the Amazon Web Server (AWS) Cloud.
Configuring the HA consists of defining the elastic (floating) IP address that enables moving from the IP address of your Alteon to the IP address of the peer to provide for high availability functionality.
Since the AWS Cloud does not have the provision to support floating IP addresses, which is essential in an HA environment, you cannot have two instances with the same IP address where just one of them will actually be active. Alteon must therefore transfer the pubic IP addresses among the VMs.
When Alteon VA operates in HA mode on AWS, upon failover the backup Alteon VA takes ownership on the primary Alteon Elastic IP address that is exposed to the outside world (this elastic IP address will act as a floating IP address).
In order to enable to transfer of the primary public IP address to the backup, Alteon should have access to the AWS account running the Alteon VA virtual machines.
For this purpose, you must enter the AWS credentials to the AWS portal as well as additional information of the IP addresses of the VMs running the Alteon to both Alteon primary and backup platforms.
After defining the AWS credentials, you should define the association between the IP addresses on the primary Alteon VA, the backup Alteon VA, and the elastic IP address.
If a failover occurs, the backup Alteon associates the elastic IP addresses with the relevant IP addresses on the backup Alteon in order to take control.
Note: This menu is valid only for Alteon VA running on an AWS cloud.
[AWS Menu] fip - Enter floating IP address menu accessid - Enter AWS access ID secretky - Enter AWS secret access key cur - Display current aws parameters |
AWS Resources Menu
Command Syntax and Usage |
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fip |
| Displays the Floating IP Address menu. To view this menu, see /cfg/sys/aws/fip Floating IP Address Menu. |
accessid |
| Sets the AWS access identifier. |
secretkey |
| Sets the AWS secret access key. |
cur |
| Displays the current AWS parameters. |