Hi,
Is there a way to configure the Anywhere USB to allow connections to the same port on the device by multiple hosts in the event of a Server Failover.
Background;
We have a system that is effectively a cluster of servers and the software is a IP based system (no com port/usb connections on the server) always 1 primary server running, the rest are backups.
I am trying to connect USB devices (modem) to the system, so I want the host to be the primary server and when the primary server stops being primary(i.e. a server restart), I need it to be able to switch the Host to the next system that becomes the Primary server.
Is there anyway to do this or is it even possible with the device?
Many thanks in advance
Multiple host PCs can “take turns” connecting to the AnywhereUSB, however they cannot be connected to the AnywhereUSB simultaneously.
The AnywhereUSB/14 (P/N AW-USB-14) and the AnywhereUSB/5M (P/N AW-USB-5M-W) are currently the only models that offers the Multi-Host Connections (MHC) feature, which allows multiple host PCs to connect to the AnywhereUSB/14 or AnywhereUSB/5M at the same time. With those models in particular, each host PC may be connected to one or more USB ports. Note, however, that multiple host PCs cannot “share” any of the same USB ports / USB devices.
You can create groups and connect to the different host machines.
If 10 pc’s are connected to 10 different ports then, they can access their 10 different AUSB ports at the same time.
For example, let’s say we have PC 1 to PC 10. PC1 connects to AUSB port 1, PC 2 connects to AUSB port2, PC3 connects to AUSB port3 and so on…
All the PCs can access their AUSB ports at the same time. But PC1 and PC2 cannot connect to AUSB port 1 at the same time
In general only one computer can connect to one USB port and/or multiple USB ports but, multiple computers cannot share a single USB port in AnywhereUSB.
In your case, you can connect Multiple host to AUSB by creating a groups, say you have created group 1 for primary server and connected to group1 and other ports are assigned to other groups. once the Primary server goes down the secondary server can be able to connect to AUSB like before but cannot connect to group1 as it is still connected to primary server, you need to disconnect first and then can be able to access the group.