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Sergi0
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Jan 31, 2018

GTM group wip failover

We have two DC and we have group WIPs between two data centers. One DC is active and second hot standby. I would like to configure failover to second DC if one of group WIP servers in first DC is dow...
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Surgeon
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Feb 03, 2018

GTM as every DNS servers do not have such terminology as active and standby. It can be primary and secondary. Every GTM is active all the time.

 

If you want to failover traffic from primary GTM to the secondary you need configure your DNS network to send requests to the secondary GTM server.

 

Depend on your configuration, if VIPs in primary DC goes down, GTMs can resolve names with IP from the secondary DC.