This is not possible. The extent of configuration for multiple services is for load-sharing with fault-tolerance, not fail-over.
You could setup a failover solution using a third server and one of those software packages that assumes the IP of a crashed server. I suggest that you do install both Witango services in the clients of both servers since this will provide you with fault-tolerance. The load balancing shouldn't be a big deal. In addition to compatible datasources, you also need to make sure that your configurations are roughly the same (ie default scope). You also need to deal with hard driving access, if the FILE action is used in your applications, you might have to allow drive access between the servers. A similar issue could occur if includes are absolutely pathed. There's other issues as well, the higher scopes work a little differently as well. Oh, and many tools such as @PURGECACHE need to be executed on both servers to yield proper results. <@PLUG>Did I mention I offer consulting for advanced Witango setups?</@PLUG> Robert -----Original Message----- From: John McGowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Witango-Talk: Witango Server Failover... Is it possible to configure the Witango client with multiple server instances, but instead of splitting the users between the instances, have it process requests on the other server only if the first server fails? I have 2 independent web servers with totally different sites running on them, and i would like them to back eachother up. (Just on the Witango part) so if the Witango server crashes on one of the machines the other machine picks up the slack. The way I see it, the only think I need to do is make sure that both machines have all the Datasources for both servers on them. /John ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
