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John_Meggers
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusNode Failover
One of my co-workers is getting ready to do an installation of an appliance-based product that uses an active / standby redudant architecture (instead of load-balanced to active / active). I know I c...
R_MarcNimbostratus
NimbostratusWell, I have similar requirements and I use iControl (Rest) scripts for this. On an event, an alert goes out to the NOC that crap has just gone down, and they run an script to identify the new "master" which just swaps the priorities and then re-enables the bad node (then they can restart, or whatever, the backend that was bad. It could probably also be done with iCall on a monitor down event to reorder the priorities via a script.
In my case, the NOC also has scripts to "normalize" traffic to the original/desired state.
