Detecting failures with MetroCluster Tiebreaker software

The Tiebreaker software resides on a Linux host. You need the Tiebreaker software only if you want to monitor two clusters and the connectivity status between them from a third site. Doing so enables each partner in a cluster to distinguish between an ISL failure, when inter-site links are down, from a site failure.

After you install the Tiebreaker software on a Linux host, you can configure the clusters in a MetroCluster configuration to monitor for disaster conditions.