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Switch high availability receiver roles

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Switch the roles of the primary and secondary Trellix Enterprise Security Manager - Event Receiver when upgrading a receiver, preparing to return a receiver to the manufacturer, or moving cables on a receiver. Switching roles minimizes potential data lost.

Note

If a collector (including the ePO - On-prem device) is associated with a Receiver-HA and the Receiver-HA fails over, the collector can't communicate with the Receiver-HA until the switches between the two associates the new MAC address of the failed-over Receiver to the shared IP address. This can take a few minutes or a few days, depending on the current network configuration.

  1. On the system navigation tree, select the Receiver-HA device, then click the Properties icon GUID-F191D568-8B93-4D2C-9BFC-F1342FC407BD-low.png.

  2. Select High AvailabilityFail-Over.

    • Trellix ESM instructs the secondary Receiver to start using the shared data source IP address and collecting data.

    • The secondary Receiver issues a Cluster Resource Manager (CRM) command to switch the shared IP address and MAC, and starts the collectors.

    • Trellix ESM pulls all alert and flow data from the primary Receiver.

    • Trellix ESM selects the secondary Receiver as the primary and selects the primary Receiver as the secondary.