Venue Failover

[Thomas D. Uram]

A couple quick thoughts:

- What about a list of backup servers?
- SC Global has talked about remote datastores, which would allow 
multiple venue servers to use the same datastore.  This backup scenario 
could obviously benefit therefrom.

Tom


Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>Here's the simple mechanism I was planning on inserting for venue failover,
>I've followed that up with open issues and concerns. I'd like to get
>feedback on how to close the open issues.
>
>1. Add to the Venue Server config file: BackupServer: <hostname>
>2. the Backup server gets the exact same venue configuration as the
>original, updates are the responsibility of the administrator. No magic will
>take care of that for now.
>3. The backup server is part of the venuestate that is received by the
>client upon entering the venue.
>
>Behavior:
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>If the venue client detects a break of the event channel, then:
>
>1. it tries 3 times to reconnect to the original server, if that fails
>2. it tries to connect to the backup server.
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>Open Issues:
>
>How to revert back to the original server?
>
>Ideas:
>
>1. don't bother
>2. retry at some interval (the trickle of users back would be disturbing)
>3. ???
>
>Concerns:
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>1. Media tools should not stop and restart (it's disruptive)
>
>Thoughts?
>
>--Ivan
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