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Kevin_Nail
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusGTM and manual failover
In our environment we have several application that are deployed in 2 sites. We use the GTM to load-balance the IPs with Global Availability. My question comes from a need to NOT have automated failover. We need time to verify any problems and to give our databases time to replicate. So hear is the question:
Is there anyway to force a wideip not to "failover" without manual intervention? I know about the "manual resume" option but that is not going to help since it is used for nodes coming back to an active state.
The only solution mayb be to not include one node in the pool... Hence we would have to manually add it but I will wait to hear from the experts.
Many thanks,
Kevin
semperfiguy_759Kevin,
If you truely need manual intervention, I would just 'disable' the pool member that is standing by and enable it when you are ready to failover.
Skuba_85554the way we achieve this is by having our actual primary site configured as the standby within 3dns. you configure your actual standby site as the primary within 3dns. force failover so you're running on what 3dns thinks is your standby site (but it's actually your primary one)
you can then make use of manual resume to failover to your actual standby site at your own will
hope that makes sense!