The automatic switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network.
Questions tagged [failover]
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Kafka consumer fails to consume if first broker is down
I'm using latest version of kafka(kafka_2.12-1.0.0.tgz). I have setup simple cluster with 3 brokers(just changed broker.id=1 and listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9092 in properties file for each instance).After cluster is up I created topic with the following…

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SQL Server failover cluster - determine active node
Is there a way to programmatically determine which node in a SQL Server failover cluster is the active node? Or at least determine whether the current machine is the active node?
I have a Windows program which runs on both physical nodes in a…

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Celery RabbitMQ broker failover connect issue
I have 3 RabbitMQ nodes in cluster in HA mode. Each node is on separate Docker container.
I am using Celery version 4 and kombu version 4.
I have used this command to set HA policy:
rabbitmqctl set_policy ha-all ""…

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What does the Azure Web Apps architecture look like?
I've had a few outages of 10 to 15 minutes, because apparently Microsoft had a 'blip' on their storages. They told me that it is because of a shared file system between the instances (making it a single point of failure?)
I didn't understand it and…

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AWS alternative to DNS failover?
I recently started reading about and playing around with AWS. I have particular interest in the different high availability architectures that can be acheived using the platform. Specifically, I am looking for a reliable poor man's solution that can…

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Why is MSDTC not supported when using SQL Server Mirroring & Automatic Failover?
I have an application that I would like to have support SQL Server Mirroring. However, the architecture is currently such that multiple WCF services and DB connections will be enlisted in a single MSDTC transactions, and Microsoft states that MSDTC…

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Node script - Failover from one server to another server
I have a nodejs script - lets call it "process1" on server1, and same script is running on server2 - "process2" (just with flag=false).
Process1 will be preforming actions and will be in "running" state at the beginning. process2 will be running but…

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Mirroring vs. Log Shipping in Sql Server 2005
I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts about the pros and cons of database mirroring vs. log shipping in this scenario: we need to setup a database backup situation wherein there is exactly one secondary server that need not automatically pick…

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How to start distributed Erlang app without starting dependencies at every node?
I tried to run a simple app in a distributed manner to test failover-takeover features but failed.
What I want to:
The application is myapp_api with a rest api, it has myapp application as a dependency. I want to start myapp_api on 3 nodes, I want…

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How to enable "persistent mode" in Windows failover cluster manager 2012?
In Windows Server 2008 R2 there was a checkbox named "Enable persistent mode" on a General tab in the Properties of a cluster resource.
In Windows Server 2012 that seems to have disappeared.
My cluster resource is a "generic script" resource (not…

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Adding a generic service to cluster from powershell
I'm a newbie in clustering and I'm trying to create a generic service to a cluster using PowerShell. I can add it without any issues using the GUI, but for some reason I cannot add it from PowerShell.
Following the first example from the…

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Configure GlassFish JDBC connection pool to handle Amazon RDS Multi-AZ failover
I have a Java EE application running in GlassFish on EC2, with a MySQL database on Amazon RDS.
I am trying to configure the JDBC connection pool to in order to minimize downtime in case of database failover.
My current configuration isn't working…

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RabbitMQ and Node.js how to handle failover scenario?
I am using RabbitMQ (cluster) and connecting to it using a Node.js client (node-amqp - https://github.com/postwait/node-amqp).
The RabbitMQ docs states that handling a failover scenario (cluster's node failure) should be handled by the client…

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Apache spark job failed immediately without retry, setting maxFailures doesn't work
I was testing a web crawling/scrapping program on Apache Spark locally on my computer.
the program use a few RDD transformations that takes a volatile function that sporadically fails. (The function's purpose is to transform URL links into web…

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How do I cluster an upload folder with ASP.Net?
We have a situation where users are allowed to upload content, and then separately make some changes, then submit a form based on those changes.
This works fine in a single-server, non-failover environment, however we would like some sort of…

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