HighAvailability

Through the high availability support, the module provides support for monitoring and failure safety on the FirstSpirit server. The idea behind this is that a commercial high availability solution, such as for example Veritas Cluster Service, provides an environment which monitors the FirstSpirit server and makes sure that in case of a software or hardware failure the FirstSpirit server starts on another computer. The cluster service detects that a server or a service has failed and triggers the restart of the service on the standby system.

FirstSpirit HighAvailability offers the following functionalities:

• Mechanisms for software-based starting and stopping the FirstSpirit server.
• Mechanisms that check whether the FirstSpirit server is running and is currently in an active status.
• Status storage exclusively on disk and/or database while also making sure that the FirstSpirit server restarts after a failure.
• Configuration isolation