MultiNICA Agent

Works with the IPMultiNIC agent. Represents a set of network interfaces and provides failover capabilities between them. Each interface in a MultiNICA resource has a base IP address. You can use one base IP address for all NICs, or you can specify a different IP address for use with each NIC. The MultiNICA agent configures one interface at a time. If it does not detect activity on the configured interface, it configures a new interface and migrates IP aliases to it.

If an interface is associated with a MultiNICA resource, do not associate it with any other MultiNICA, MultiNICB, or NIC resource. If the same set of interfaces must be a part of multiple service groups, configure:

1. A MultiNICA resource in one of the service groups.
2. Proxy resources that point to the MultiNICA resource in the other service groups.

Entry Point

• Monitor---Checks for activity on a configured interface by sampling input packets received on that interface. If it does not detect activity, it forces activity by sending out a broadcast ping. If it detects a failure, it migrates to the next available interface configured in the Device attribute.

State Definitions

• ONLINE---Indicates that one or more of the network interfaces listed in the Device attribute of the resource is in working condition.
• FAULTED---Indicates that all of the network interfaces listed in the Device attribute failed.
• UNKNOWN---Indicates that the configuration is incorrect.