Remote access to a clustered server

[syn666]

We have 2 servers in our office that are in a cluster, if one server fails, all office users change over to the other server.

But remote uses still try and replicate with the failed server.

Does fail over work with remote clients?

 

[AmazingDominik]

Hi,

Normally not because your remote users connect to a webserver that has a fixed IP address.

Normally your servers will be behind a firewall and the HTTP requests are transmitted to the internal server.

The moment your server fails you would need to change your firewall configuration to point to the other machine.

There are ways to do this automatically by assigning more then 1 IP address to a certain domain (Round robin).
Some firewalls have functionality to set this up in an easy way.






Kind regards,

Dominik Malfait
dominik@amazingit.com

http://www.amazingit.com

 

[tonty]

If you are talking about simple replication of databases over a dial up connection for example, on the client, go to the replicator page, right click the replication entry for the database that is causing problems, select options and make sure the Replicate with server option is not hard coded as a specific server. The other two options are self explanitory and perform a sort of failover.

Regards,
Tony.