Adding IP Availability Manager as a topology and status source

By default, VoIP Availability Manager is configured to include an IP Availability Manager named INCHARGE-AM as a source of device topology and device topology status updates.

You can edit the domain.conf file and change this name or configure additional IP Availability Managers as sources for VoIP Availability Manager. The block of lines to be edited is:

InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM
{
    Type       = “AM”
    DomainName = “INCHARGE-AM”
}

To change the default IP Availability Manager name, or to add an additional IP Availability Manager as a topology and status source:

Go to the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory in the VoIP Availability Manager installation area and issue the following command to open the domain.conf file:
```
sm_edit conf/voip/domain.conf
```
On the InChargeDomain and DomainName lines, change INCHARGE-AM to the name of your IP Availability Manager. For example:
```
InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_EAST-AM1
{
    Type       = “AM”
    DomainName = “EAST-AM1”
}
```
To configure additional IP Availability Manager sources, copy and paste additional instances of the InChargeDomain object and then follow the directions given in Step 2.

Here is an example of an additional IP Availability Manager instance in which Type = “AM” indicates that an IP Availability Manager and an IP Performance Manager or IP Server Performance Manager are running as a single process:
```
InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_EAST-AM2
{
    Type       = “AM”
    DomainName = “EAST-AM2”
}
```
Save and close the file. The modified version of the domain.conf file is saved to the BASEDIR/smarts/local/conf/voip directory.
If VoIP Availability Manager was running before you edited the domain.conf file, restart VoIP Availability Manager.

At startup, VoIP Availability Manager reads the domain.conf file, saves the configuration information in its repository, and imports VoIP-enabled devices from the one or more IP Availability Manager sources.

Note:
If an IP Availability Manager source is not running, VoIP Availability Manager will periodically attempt to connect to the IP Availability Manager.