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Configure ONTAP Mediator or ONTAP Cloud Mediatior using self-signed certificates on ASA r2 systems

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You must configure ONTAP Mediator or ONTAP Cloud Mediator before you can begin using SnapMirror active sync for cluster monitoring. ONTAP Mediator and ONTAP Cloud Mediator both provide a persistent and fenced store for high availability (HA) metadata used by the ONTAP clusters in a SnapMirror active sync relationship. Additionally, both mediators provide a synchronous node health query functionality to aid in quorum determination and serves as a ping proxy for controller liveliness detection.

Before you begin

  • If you are using ONTAP Cloud Mediator, verify that your ASA r2 system meets the necessary prerequisites.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, select Protection > Overview.

  2. In the right pane, next to Mediators select three vertical blue dots; then select Add a mediator.

  3. Select the Mediator type.

  4. For a Cloud mediator enter the organization ID, client ID and client secret. For an On-premises mediator enter the IP address, port, mediator user name and mediator password.

  5. Select the cluster peer from the list of eligible cluster peers or select Add a cluster peer to add a new one.

  6. Copy the content of the intermediate.crt file and paste it into the Certificate field, or select Import to navigate to the intermediate.crt file and import the certificate information.

  7. Select Add.

What's next?

After you have initialized the mediator, you can configure SnapMirror active sync to create a copy of your data at a secondary site and enable your host applications to automatically and transparently failover in the event of a disaster.