How to manage Arc SDE on Unix platform in Cluster mode?

[RameshKurma]

Hi,

we are in deployment phase and I need to manage Arc SDE on Unix platform in Cluster mode.
We have two servers and for cluster mode we have a virtual IP which talks to both of the servers now I just want to know the capability & proceducre of Arc SDE on unix platform to work with it.

Is it possible to work in this environment so that when Primary server is down, secondary server will run and Arc SDE service will work as it is and GIS application server will work fine too?

I mean there would not be any manual intervention to activate anything. Database server is in active-passive mode.

Please help me if any one has idea or any links or documents that helps regarding this.

Thanks-Ramesh

[VinceAngelo]

No, ArcSDE is not designed so that the ArcSDE application server can failover.  The documented
solution is to use Direct Connect and rely on the database API, but even this is not a perfect
solution, since none of the databases support this seamlessly -- you'll need to reconnect when
the primary database fails.

You didn't provide the database product or ArcSDE version, so I can't steer you to the correct
documentation, except to suggest searching with "direct connect failover {database}".

- V