Zetafax failover - configuring a failover system
Having installed your failover system, you will need to adjust your failover configuration to match your needs.
1. Open your Zetafax configuration program.
2. Open the Server failover screen, found within the Server Settings:
3. From here you can:
•Check your primary and back-up server locations
•Set the number of minutes your primary sever can be unresponsive before starting the back-up system
•Set the number of minutes your back-up server should wait on start up before monitoring the primary server
Checking your server locations
At the top of the Configuration Options - Server failover screen, the names of both your primary and back-up Servers are displayed. if at any time you need to change these locations, you will need to modify your Setup.ini file following the instructions in the installing a failover system section.
Setting the check time
The check time, is the number of minutes the back-up server will wait before checking that the primary server is active.
The default setting for the check time is 2 minutes, but by modifying this number you can change this frequency to anywhere between 1 and 30 minutes. The more frequent these checks, the quicker your back-up server will be activated in the case of issues with your primary server. However, increased check times may lead to marginally decreased server productivity.
Setting the back-up standby time
In some situations, for example power failure, both your primary and back-up server may restart at the same time.
The back-up standby time is a method of preventing the back-up server from activating immediately on start up, to allow the primary server enough time to restart and activate Zetafax.
The default setting for the check time is 5 minutes, but by modifying this number you can change this frequency to anywhere between 5 and 20 minutes. The more frequent these checks, the quicker your back-up server will be activated after a restart.
Note: For both the check time and the standby time, if no value or a number outside the range has been added, the default value will be used.