Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Data Management:
Database Administration

Failover Clusters

Failover Clusters provide an operating system and hardware vendor-independent solution for automated fail over of your OpenEdge database and related resources.

This chapter describes Failover Clusters in detail. Specifically, this chapter includes the following sections:

Overview
Terms and concepts
Using the PROCLUSTER command-line interface
Results of enabling an OpenEdge database for fail over
Platform-specific considerations
Using a cluster-enabled database with the AdminServer
Using a cluster-enabled database with standard commands
Using the Windows Cluster Administrator
Emergency disabling of a cluster-enabled database
UNIX cluster management commands

Throughout the remainder of this chapter, Failover Clusters is also referred to as Clusters.