High Availability window

The High Availability window provides a pictorial representation of the HA state, interconnect status, and takeover or giveback status of all the HA pairs in clustered Data ONTAP. You can manually initiate a takeover or giveback operation.

You can view details such as the takeover or giveback status and interconnect status by clicking the HA pair image.

The color indicates the HA pair status:

•	Green: Indicates that the HA pair and the interconnect are optimally configured and available for takeover or giveback. It also indicates takeover in progress, giveback in progress, and waiting for giveback states.

•	Red: Indicates a downgraded state such as a takeover failure.

•	Yellow: Indicates that the interconnect status is down.

When multiple HA pairs in a cluster are simultaneously involved in storage failover operations, the cluster status that is displayed is based on the status and severity of the HA pair. The following order of severity is considered while displaying the cluster status: Takeover in progress, Giveback in progress, Waiting for giveback.

Actions

You can perform tasks such as takeover or giveback based on the status of the nodes in the HA pair. These actions are available only for clusters running Data ONTAP 8.2.1.

•	Takeover node_name

Enables you to perform a takeover operation when maintenance is required on the partner node.

•	Giveback node_name

Enables you to perform a giveback operation when the partner node that has been taken over is waiting for giveback or is in a partial giveback state.

•	Enable or Disable automatic giveback

Enables or disables the automatic giveback operation.

Note: Automatic giveback is enabled by default.

Command buttons

Refresh

Updates the information in the window.

Note: Information displayed in the High Availability window is automatically refreshed every 60 seconds.

Related tasks

Monitoring HA pairs