Download the tar file containing scripts for SSL VPN automatic monitoring and failover from the Additional Resources section on the Novell Access Manager documentation page. The tar file contains sslvpn-heartbeat.sh and sslvpn-heartbeat.

Copy the sslvpn-heartbeat.sh script to the /opt/novell/sslvpn/bin directory in each of the SSL VPN servers.

Copy the sslvpn-heartbeat file to the /etc/init.d/directory.

Enter the following commands to change sslvpn-heartbeat.sh and sslvpn-heartbeat into executable files:

chmod +x sslvpn-heartbeat.sh

chmod +x sslvpn-heartbeat

Enter the following command to run the script every time the Access Gateway is started:

insserv /etc/init.d/sslvpn-heartbeat