Re: {bb} Failover configuration

[Frank Timmers <frank.timmers@philips.com>]

owner-bb@bb4.com wrote on 2006-05-11 15:34:40:

> I would appreciate some help with the following question.
> I want to configure failover.
> I only want to have my primary server as a BBDISPLAY.
> The question is the following:
> both servers have the following bb-hosts file:
> x.x.x.x   primary.server.com  # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY
> x.x.x.x  secondary.server.com # BBPAGER
> 
> --in the secondary server (which i want that is my failover)
> i have done the following changes:
> 1) in etc/bbdef.sh   BBEXT="failover"
> 2) bbwarn: FAILOVER
> 3) uncomment FAILOVERBOTH=TRUE
> 4) in etc/bb-bbextab : x.x.x.x  secondary.server.com : : failover
> 
> I am not sure my clients bb-hosts files are properly set:
> what i have done is in both primary and secondary i have set the bb-
> host clients as:
> x.x.x.x  primary.server.com  # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY
> Could you help me with this, i dont think that my bb-hosts clients 
> are properly defined.
> 

Iirc you'll need to specify both servers as BBDISPLAY on all clients, 
however, if you don't want a display on your failover server, just skip 
the webserver configuration ;)

Greetings,
/Frank.
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