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Felkor_29336
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Dec 17, 2013

Score bonus & failover condition

Hello guys,   A question regarding the behavior of the failover in the 11.4.1   Two devices, in active/standby, with a trunk   Active unit bonus score : +10   Bonus per available trunk in...
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Felkor_29336's avatar
Felkor_29336
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Dec 17, 2013

Hi,

 

Thanks for your answer. This is indeed a way to avoid this situation.

 

But here I'm trying to understand why we have this behavior (failover or not in case of equality of the score). It looks like it is link to the management IP for the decision...

 

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Dylan_25501
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Mar 08, 2016
Time to resurrect this thread one year on. I have observed this behaviour also (highest management IP used to break a tie) but I am yet to see this mentioned in any documentation.