Simple Windows Failover Solution

[mattlandis]

I've written a windows VBScript that will make a simple failover solution for Windows.

 

Basically you have 2 servers running pbxnsip with the configuration you want. When the live server goes down the backup server will take on the IP address of the live server.

 

On the failover server you schedule the attached vbscript to run every minute:

c:\heartbeat <live_server_ip> <live_server_mask> <live_server_gateway>

 

example:

c:\heartbeat 192.168.1.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1

 

Everytime the script runs and the live server is up a windows event log will be written of success.

The instant the live server fails, the failover process will role into action:

#1-windows event log of failure will be written

#2-IP address change will be done and event log written.

 

Roadmap Features:

-copy data from live server to failover on ongoing basis

-automatically start the pbxnsip service

 

Current Requirements:

-pbxnsip running on a second server with the configuration in place

-a pbxnsip license key with MAC address of master and backup server

 

This is beta, sloppy code (hey, i did it in 1.5hr) and not tested very much yet. So test on a test senario and give me feedback.

 

Matt

heartbeat.zip

[pbxuser911]

nice work matt!!!!

[mattlandis]

nice work matt!!!!

 

Thanks.

 

Did you get a chance to test it?

Give me any feedback you want.

 

Matt

[pbxuser911]

Not operating on WIN but its nice to see a win failover example for other windows users.....

[Vodia PBX]

Did anyone had the change to try out Microsoft Hyper-V for failover? I saw an advertizement that stuff like Microsoft Exchange can failover pretty quickly and I think this should also work for the pbxnsip PBX.

[mattlandis]

No, I didn't test hyper-v although I should.

I think that could work too.

 

I guess i was trying for total failure of any pc/node the next one will take over.

 

matt