Setting up JSCAPE Failover Server

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Last updated: May 15, 2017Version comment

JSCAPE MFT Server can be configured to synchronize all configuration changes to a failover server. The purpose of a failover server is that if the production server goes down, the failover server can quickly take over the duties of the production server.

Prerequisites

  • The failover JSCAPE MFT Server should have the same version as that of your primary server.
  • To configure the JSCAPE Server for failover follow the same installation steps followed to install and configure your primary server.
  • The JSCAPE installed on the failover server is running.

Defining Failover Server

Failover server will be defined on your JSCAPE primary server. To define:

  1. Login to the JSCAPE MFT Server web interface.
  2. Go to Server > Settings. 



  3. The Settings dialog box appears. Select Failover from the left menu.
  4. In the Failover tab, provide the IP/Hostname, Port, username, and other credentials of the secondary server to be used as Failover.
  5. Click Synchronize State to synchronize the configurations of the primary and secondary server for the first time. Also, you can perform this whenever you want to synchronize the data between the servers manually.



  6. Select Enable automatic failover synchronization check box for synchronizing any configuration change on the primary server with the secondary server in real-time.
  7. Select Start domain/Services after synchronization check box to start the domain services on the secondary server after the synchronization is performed because at the time of synchronization domain services are stopped at the secondary server.



  8. Now, go to the IP Substitution tab.
  9. Click Add.
    the Add Rule window appears.
  10. Provide the IP address of the primary server in the IP text box and the IP address of the Failover server in the Substitution IP text box.



  11. Click OK.

    You can also set up your primary and failover JSCAPE MFT servers in the cluster for Load Balancing and proxy management.