Building Failover system

Starting point

The main server and 1 recording subserver were added to the system

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Enabling VMS failover server to the recording server

  1. Open the VMS Servers tab

  2. Select subserver from the list

  3. Click General

  4. Define VMS server group ID(default 1)

  5. Enable VMS server failover is enabled for this VMS server

  6. Enable Detect VMS server failure on connection loss

  7. Define value Connection is not established an after

  8. Click OK

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Adding FAILOVER server

  1. Open the VMS Servers tab

  2. Click Add VMS server

  3. Set the name for the server

  4. Set IP address of the server

  5. Define the VMS server group ID

  6. Enable Use as a failover VMS server

  7. Click OK

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After the adding, the VMS Server tab shows Failover VMS Server line

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