WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager
Ensuring High Availability Operation of Your WhatsUp Gold Platform
Intelligent Failover between Primary and Secondary WhatsUp Gold Servers
WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager provides intelligent failover capability between a set of Primary and Secondary servers running WhatsUp Gold. Key features include the following –
WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Basics
- Supports all WhatsUp Gold versions – Standard, Premium, Distributed and MSP
- Supports installation on all current Windows operating systems
- Enables both automatic and manual triggering of failover from a Primary to a Secondary server
- Supports all Active monitors and Performance Monitors for automatic failover
- Automatically supports Passive monitor configurations that are hosted on the same host system for failover e.g. WinEvents
- Automatically supports Passive monitor configurations where dual message destinations can be set (e.g. flow sources configured to send traffic information to both Primary and Secondary servers)
- Supports multiple modes of remote database operation to ensure monitoring data resiliency through failover
WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Configuration
- Allows set up of multiple trigger conditions for automated failover based on selective component service failures (e.g. failure of collection, discovery, Alert Center, Flow Monitor, WhatsConfigured, WhatsConnected, or WhatsVirtual services)
- Failover can be configured to occur in three ways -
- The Primary server initiates failover as it detects failed services and exceeds the trigger point condition
- The Secondary server initiates failover when it fails to reach the Primary server for a specified duration and detects that database updates have also stopped
- Manual initiation of failover by an administrator
- Failback from the Secondary server (acting as a Primary) to the original Primary server can occur in three ways –
- Once the Primary Server comes back up it can automatically be set to become ‘active’
- The Secondary server may continue to act as the Primary server until a failover event transfers control back to the original Primary server
- Manual failback to the Primary server by an administrator
- Configurable failover trigger settings include Failure Duration (how long the Primary is unreachable by the Secondary) and Status Query Interval (duration between periodic database checks to verify that the Primary server is regularly updating data)
WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Alerting and Reporting
- Thresholds and escalations can be configured for failover events in the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center
- Failover Workspace Report in Alert Center shows both informational messages (for manual failover) and error messages (for automatic failover)