Assign failover recording servers

On the Failover tab of a recording server, you can choose between three types of failover setups:

No failover setup
A primary/secondary failover setup (cold standby)
A hot standby setup.

If you select b and c, you must select the specific server/groups. With b, you can also select a secondary failover group. If the recording server becomes unavailable, a failover recording server from the primary failover group takes over. If you have also selected a secondary failover group, a failover recording server from the secondary group takes over in case all failover recording servers in the primary failover group are busy. In this way, you only risk not having a failover solution in the rare case when all failover recording servers in the primary, as well as in the secondary, failover group are busy.

In the Site Navigation pane, select Servers > Recording Servers. This opens a list of recording servers.
In the Overview pane, select the wanted recording server, go to the Failover tab.
To choose failover setup type, select between:
- None
- Primary failover server group/Secondary failover sever group
- Hot standby server.
You cannot select the same failover group as both primary and secondary failover group nor select regular failover servers already part of a failover group as hot standby servers.
Next, click Advanced failover settings. This opens the Advanced Failover Settings window, listing all devices attached to the selected recording server. If you selected None, the advanced failover settings are also available. The system keeps any selections for later failover setups.
To specify the level of failover support, select Full Support, Live Only or Disabled for each device in the list. Click OK.
In the Failover service communication port (TCP) field, edit the port number if needed.

If you enable failover support and the recording server is configured to keep running if a recording storage is unavailable, the failover recording server will not take over. To make the failover support work, you must select the Stop the recording server if a recording storage is unavailable option on the Storage tab.