Topic: failover problems on Windows

[vijay323]

Hi,
On the load balancer set up that we have, everything seems to work fine except for the failover.

Can anyone tell me the mistakes/missing configurations. Given below is a snippet of the configurations..

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ProxyPass / http://proxy1/
ProxyPass / http://proxy2/

ProxyPassReverse / http://proxy1/
ProxyPassReverse / http://proxy2/

ProxyPass / balancer://proxybalancer nofailover=On

<Proxy balancer://proxycluster >
BalancerMember http://proxy1 smax=1 loadfactor=1 route=1
BalancerMember http://proxy2 smax=1 loadfactor=1 route=2
ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests
</Proxy>
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In case 'proxy1' is taken off, then the request should be automatically routed to 'proxy2'. This as of now is not happenning.

I tried by changing the parameters(like manaually disabling the server, setting a higher value to lbset parameter & providing a redirect value to the inactive server) on the balance-manager interface, but to no avail.

Note: Underlying OS is windows!!

Thanks in advance,
Vijay

[tdonovan]

Have you tried it without the nofailover=On parameter?

This parameter prevents failing over from the route=1 proxy to any proxy with a different route.
If you expect clients to failover, I don't think you want to have nofailover=On .

-tom-

[vijay323]

Hi Tom,

As per your suggestion, I tried without the 'nofailover' parameter, but still the failover fails.!

Is it that implementing this on Windows server requires any env. variables to be set?

~vijay~