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Setting Up Nodes

The nodes of the cluster will need to be setup in the following order:

  1. Setup Active Load Balancer Node

  2. Setup Backup Load Balacer Node

  3. Setup VPN/Gateway/Real Node

Node Setup - Common Steps

Any type of node setup needs to go through the following steps:

  1. Installation

  2. Network Configuration

  3. System Configuration

  4. Configuring Access to First Security Officer

    1. Register First SO

    2. Enroll First SO

    3. Logging in as an SO

Setup Active Load Balancer Node

Perform the Node Setup.

Once the first SO has logged in, perform the following steps

  1. Open Management console and expand HIGH AVAILABILITY

  2. Clickon Set Install Type sub-menu

  3. Select the option "Create a new cluster" and provide Virtual IP, netmask and the Virtual Interface.

    The role of this first node should be selected as "Active Load Balancer(also HySecure Gateway)"

    Note

    1. The Virtual IP must be an available (free) IP address on the network

    2. The Virtual Interface indicates the actual interface e.g. eth0 on which the virtual interface gets created with the virtual IP

  4. Configure the remaining cluster information by following the steps indicated in the Configuration section of High Availability.

Recommendation

While configuring the Active Load Balancer node, it is recommended to Configure NTP so that the time is sync'ed between the Active LoadBalancer node and the other nodes of the cluster. This avoids configuration data sync failures between nodes due to time lags between them.

Important

Details of the Backup Load Balancer node and additional VPN/Gateway/Real nodes need to be added in the HySecure Servers section on the Configuration page before these are installed and configured

This completes the creation of this node in the cluster.

Setup Backup Load Balancer Node

Perform the Node Setup.

Once the first SO has logged in, perform the following steps for each of the nodes which need to be configured to be a part of the cluster.

  1. Open Management console and expand HIGH AVAILABILITY

  2. Clickon Set Install Type sub-menu

  3. Select the option "Join node to cluster" and provide Virtual IP, netmask and the Virtual Interface of the cluster which was created while configuring the first node i.e. "Active Load Balancer"

  4. Select the role of the node as "Backup Load Balancer(also HySecure Gateway)", if you need to have failover for load balancing activity besides expecting the node to act as a Gateway

  5. To confirm whether the cluster configuration has been sync'ed with this node, use the Configuration section of High Availability page to see the sync'ed information.

    Important

    No configuration should be done for the cluster while you are connected to this node.

This completes the creation of a Backup Load Balancer node in the cluster.

Setup VPN/Gateway/Real Node

Perform the Node Setup.

Once the first SO has logged in, perform the following steps for each of the nodes which need to be configured to be a part of the cluster.

  1. Open Management console and expand HIGH AVAILABILITY

  2. Clickon Set Install Type sub-menu

  3. Select the option "Join node to cluster" and provide Virtual IP, netmask and the Virtual Interface of the cluster which was created while configuring the first node i.e. "Active Load Balancer"

  4. Select the role of the node as "HySecure Gateway", if you do not expect the node to participate in the load balancing activity and expect it to act as a Gateway only

  5. To confirm whether the cluster configuration has been sync'ed with this node, use the Configuration section of High Availability page to see the sync'ed information.

    Important

    No configuration should be done for the cluster while you are connected to this node.

This completes the creation of a VPN/Gateway/Real node in the cluster.

Additional Reference

Also see Best Practices for Cluster Management

Note

HySecure on the cloud platforms use the cloud as an Infrastructure and no specific cloud services are used. As a result, the procedure for cluster installation and deployment on cloud remains the same as that for an On-premise installation/deployment.