On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, David Wojtowicz wrote:
>I had very bad experiences in the past with automated failover (the old
>ldmfail program caused me lots of headaches)
I as well. I disabled it too.
>so I guess I have a natural adversion to it, but I should try with the
>new builtin failover tools. Actually, did it handle it on your system?
>Thelma is still up and feeding data at this moment.
At 22:37 Z, the connection to thelma was lost and then it came back at
23:34Z. The failover and reconnection was all seemless without restarting
LDM. The best part of the new method is only having one ldmd.conf file!
For those that are curious, here is an example of the new system.
request DDPLUS ".*" unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu PRIMARY
request DDPLUS ".*" thelma.ucar.edu ALTERNATE
Later
Daryl
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