GIM server failover

You can define a backup GIM server. If a GIM client fails to connect to its GIM server after five consecutive attempts, the GIM client automatically connects to the failover server if it is specified.

When you install the GIM client, you specify the collector that GIM reports by using the GIM parameter GIM_URL. You can specify another collector for GIM client to fail over to in case primary collector goes down, with the GIM parameter GIM_FAILOVER_URL.

The GIM client reverts to its original GIM server when that server becomes available.

You can add the failover GIM server at any time by using the GIM parameter GIM_FAILOVER_URL.

The GIM server failover has no relationship to the central manager redundancy. The GIM parameter GIM_FAILOVER_URL is not copied or maintained in the backup central manager, so upon central manager switchover there is no defined GIM server.