Appliance Event Broker Health Checklist

The following is a checklist for checking your appliance event brokers. The detailed steps are available at Appliance Event Broker Health Check. You can also download a PDF version of this page you mark your changes as required:

 Health Check for Solace Appliance Event Broker Pass Fail N/A
 

Hostname of Appliance (show hostname):

Date of Health Check: 
 1. Support for Broker Appliance and Broker Release
1.1 The installed broker release (SolOS) is supported. ☐ ☐ ☐
1.2 The chassis product number is supported. ☐ ☐ ☐
 2. System Stability
2.1 System uptime is acceptable (no unexpected restarts). ☐ ☐ ☐
Last restart reason was expected. ☐ ☐ ☐
2.2 No recent SYSTEM_CHASSIS_* events in system.log. ☐ ☐ ☐
No recent SYSTEM_SYSTEM_HEALTH_* events in system.log. ☐ ☐ ☐
2.3 Power-On Self Test (POST) status is PASSED. ☐ ☐ ☐
 3: Hardware Status
3.1 Power module 1 Status is OK. ☐ ☐ ☐
Power module 2 Status is OK. ☐ ☐ ☐
3.2 Network Acceleration Blade (NAB) interfaces are configured correctly. ☐ ☐ ☐
No SYSTEM_NAB_* events in system.log. ☐ ☐ ☐
3.3 Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Fibre-Channel 1 Link State is Link Up. ☐ ☐ ☐
Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Fibre-Channel 2 Link State is Link Up. ☐ ☐ ☐
3.4 Assured Delivery Blade (ADB) Operational State is Up. ☐ ☐ ☐
Assured Delivery Blade (ADB) Mate Link Port 1 is Ok. ☐ ☐ ☐
Assured Delivery Blade (ADB) Mate Link Port 2 is Ok. ☐ ☐ ☐
No SYSTEM_ADB_* events in system.log. ☐ ☐ ☐
 4. Network Connectivity
4.1

PTP is configured, has a Status of Enabled, and PTP In-Sync is Yes.

NTP is configured and has a Status of Enabled and Reachable is Yes.

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4.2 All configured DNS servers have Status of Up. ☐ ☐ ☐
 5. Message-Spool Status (If Configured)
5.1 The Config Status is Enabled. ☐ ☐ ☐
The l Operational Status is (AD-Active for standalone appliances or AD-Active/AD-Standby for redundant appliances. ☐ ☐ ☐
  6. Redundancy Status (If Configured)
For Active/Active configurations, perform the check for either 6.1A or 6.1B. For 6.1A, perform the procedure when Guaranteed messaging is configured or is not configured.        
  6.1A Perform one of the checks following for Active/Active depending on whether Guaranteed Messaging is configured.

For Active/Active Redundancy - Guaranteed Messaging is not Configured.

 Appliance 1: Configuration Status is Enabled, Redundancy Status is Up, Redundancy Mode is Active/Active, and Message Spool Status is AD-Disabled/AD-Disabled. ☐ ☐ ☐
Appliance 2: : Configuration Status is Enabled, Redundancy Status is Up, , Redundancy Mode is Active/Active, and Message Spool Status is AD-Disabled/AD-Disabled. ☐ ☐ ☐
Active/Active Redundancy - Guaranteed Messaging is Configured Appliance 1: Configuration Status is Enabled, Redundancy Status is Up, Redundancy Mode is Active/Active, and Message Spool Status is AD-Active/AD-Disabled. ☐ ☐ ☐
Appliance 2: : Configuration Status is Enabled, Redundancy Status is Up, , Redundancy Mode is Active/Active, and Message Spool Status is AD-Disabled/AD-Standby. ☐ ☐ ☐
6.1B

Active/Standby Redundancy Configuration. You can set the check as passed depending on which appliance event broker is Active.

If the primary appliance event broker is active and the the Configuration,  Redundancy, primary/backup virtual router values, and Message Spool statuses on the:

  • primary appliance event brokers: Enabled, Up, Local Active/Shutdown, Redundancy Mode is Active/Standby, and AD-Active, respectively
  • backup appliance event brokers: Enabled, Up, Shutdown/Mate Active, and AD-Disabled, respectively

If the standby appliance event broker is active, the Configuration,  Redundancy, primary/backup virtual router values, Redundancy Mode is Active/Standby, and Message Spool statuses are as follows:

  • primary appliance" Enabled, Up, and Mate Active/Shutdown, and Ad-Standby, respectively
  • backup appliance: Enabled, Up, and Shutdown/Local Active, and AD-Active respectively:
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6.2 Config-Sync Admin Status is Enabled on both appliance event brokers. ☐ ☐ ☐
Config-Sync Oper Status is Up on both appliance event brokers. ☐ ☐ ☐

You have now completed the checks.