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| author | Jan Zeleny <jzeleny@redhat.com> | 2012-06-05 09:01:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> | 2012-08-01 16:19:41 +0200 |
| commit | 9da182cf4e6af46164d7e60574dcdd07bc11de3e (patch) | |
| tree | 635bcab2e79e22c12bd737ef95a28a595d2fff0a /src/man/include | |
| parent | 016e0d7202ff965018e41869c5ab501f86b0d081 (diff) | |
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Primary server support: man page, failover section
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diff --git a/src/man/include/failover.xml b/src/man/include/failover.xml index efe3ee42..dbf9d546 100644 --- a/src/man/include/failover.xml +++ b/src/man/include/failover.xml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <title>FAILOVER</title> <para> The failover feature allows back ends to automatically switch to - a different server if the primary server fails. + a different server if the current server fails. </para> <refsect2 id='failover_syntax'> <title>Failover Syntax</title> @@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ listed in order of preference. The list can contain any number of servers. </para> + <para> + For each failover-enabled config option, two variants exist: + <emphasis>primary</emphasis> and <emphasis>backup</emphasis>. + The idea is that servers in the primary list are preferred and + backup servers are only searched if no primary servers can be + reached. If a backup server is selected, a timeout of 30 seconds + is set. After this timeout SSSD will periodically try to reconnect + to one of the primary servers. If it succeeds, it will replace + the current active (backup) server. + </para> </refsect2> <refsect2 id='failover_mechanism'> <title>The Failover Mechanism</title> |