Building Failover system
Starting point
The master server and 1 recording slave server were added to the system
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Enabling VMS failover server to the recording server
Open the VMS Servers tab
Select slave server from the list
Click General
Define VMS server group ID(default 1)
Enable VMS server failover is enabled for this VMS server
Enable Detect VMS server failure on connection loss
Define value Connection is not established an after
Click OK
Adding FAILOVER server
Open the VMS Servers tab
Click Add VMS server
Set the name for the server
Set IP address of the server
Define the VMS server group ID
Enable Use as a failover VMS server
Click OK
After the adding, the VMS Server tab shows Failover VMS Server line
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