Top "Failover" questions

The automatic switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network.

Multi-AZ RDS test failover and connection monitoring

My question has two parts: What is the best way to initiate an RDS failover for testing purposes? How can …

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Apache Solr Failover Support in Master-Slave Setup

Our development team is currently looking into migrating our search system to Apache Solr, and we would greatly appreciate some …

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SQL Server failover cluster - determine active node

Is there a way to programmatically determine which node in a SQL Server failover cluster is the active node? Or …

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