Configuring Out of Band Management on System Manager in the Geographic Redundancy setup

About this task

	Note
	You cannot enable Out of Band Management on secondary System Manager server when Out of Band Management on primary System Manager server is disabled.

Before you begin

Identify one of the following:

Enable Out of Band Management on both the primary and secondary System Manager server.
Enable Out of Band Management on the primary System Manager server and not enable Out of Band Management on the secondary System Manager server.
Disable Out of Band Management on secondary System Manager server.
Disable Out of Band Management on both the primary and secondary System Manager server.

Procedure

To enable Out of Band Management on both primary and secondary System Manager server, perform the following:
1. Disable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.
2. Convert primary System Manager server to standalone System Manager server and activate the secondary System Manager server.
3. Enable Out of Band Management on both primary and secondary System Manager server.
4. Reconfigure the Geographic Redundancy on the secondary System Manager server.
5. Enable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.
To enable Out of Band Management on the primary System Manager server and not enable Out of Band Management on secondary System Manager server, perform the following:
1. Disable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.
2. Convert primary System Manager server to standalone System Manager server.
3. Enable Out of Band Management on primary System Manager server.
4. Once Out of Band Management on primary System Manager server is enabled, reconfigure Geographic Redundancy on secondary System Manager server.
5. Enable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.
To disable Out of Band Management on secondary server, perform the following:
1. Disable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.
2. Convert primary System Manager server to standalone System Manager server.
3. Activate secondary System Manager server and disable Out of Band Management.
4. Reconfigure primary System Manager server from the web console of the secondary System Manager server.
5. Enable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.
To disable Out of Band Management on both servers, perform the following:
1. Disable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.
2. Convert primary System Manager server to standalone System Manager server and disable Out of Band Management.
3. Activate secondary System Manager server and disable Out of Band Management.
4. Reconfigure Geographic Redundancy on secondary System Manager server with old primary System Manager server which is now standalone.
5. Enable Geographic Redundancy replication on primary System Manager server.