HP Storage Mirroring V4.5 Software - Manual (Page 50)

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Select source and target servers
If this is your first time to select a SQL server to protect, you may need to click the Advanced Find
button to add servers to the Source Server and Target Server fields. For more information, see Add
or manage servers on page 5-4.
If you select a source/target pair for which you have previously enabled and disabled protection, you
may use the existing configuration settings (provided that the source/target connection is not
currently active, in which case the existing settings will always be used). When you select Configure
or Validate, a prompt will appear asking if you want to re-use the previous configuration information.
Click Yes to re-use the previous information, or click No to revert to the Application Manager default
settings.
1. In the Source Server field, select the SQL server that you want to protect. If this is your first
time to log in to the selected server, you will be prompted to enter server login information. For
more information about logging in to servers, see Enter server login information on
page 5-5.
2. In the Target Server field, select the backup SQL server that will protect the source server in
the event of a failure.
Notice that after the source and target servers are selected, the Protection Status on the Monitor tab
changes to Unprotected.
NOTE: If the IP address(es) for the source or target server have changed since you originally
configured protection (for example, if you configure the source or target in a staging area
and then send it to a production location), you must re-configure the protection settings.
When you are prompted to re-use the previous protection configuration, click No, then
click the Configure Protection button.
NOTE: You cannot protect a server if it is already functioning as a target server.
If you attempt to select a source that is currently unavailable, a prompt will appear
stating that the source is not available and that if the source is failed over, you should
first select the target.
If you select the target, then select the source (as recommended in the prompt), the
same prompt appears (though you would expect to get a prompt to failover). The
ability to failover using the Application Manager will not be available until a failover
condition has been met in accordance with the failover monitor settings set on the
Monitoring tab.
NOTE: If you first select a target that is monitoring a connection that has met a failover condition
and requires manual intervention, then select the protected source server, a prompt will
appear asking if you want to initiate failover.