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.
- TBD
Defining Failover Server
Failover server will be defined on your JSCAPE primary server. To define:
- Login to the JSCAPE MFT Server Web Interface.
- Go to Server > Settings.
- The Settings dialog box appears. Select the Failover option from the left menu.
- In the Failover tab, provide the IP/Hostname, Port, username, and other credentials of the secondary server to be used as Failover.
- 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.
- Select the Enable automatic failover synchronization check box after that for synchronizing any configuration change on the primary server with the secondary server in real-time.
- Select the 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.
- Now go to the IP Substitution tab and 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.
Click OK.
You can also set up your primary and failover JSCAPE MFT servers in the cluster for Load Balancing and proxy management.