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I have an application that only runs on 1 out of 4 servers (similar to a failover cluster but the servers are paired at each site), how do I configure an alert to show the server where the application stopped and the server that took over the applica

Server A application is active, Server B application is not running. Server X application is not running, Server Y is not running.

I need to alert on Server A application not running and any other server (B,X,Y) application taking over. It should also alert on the next application release and takeover.

If this is more than 1 alert, that is fine but, I don't need false positives.

The action should be an email/text that contains the previously active server as well as the server that has taken over.

Right now, I have one alert that tells when the application on any (of the 4) server goes down and another alert that notifies when any (of the 4) change to the running state.

I am looking for a better way.

Thank you.

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bobmarley

Do you own SAM? I used to do something similar using SAM and a SQL Query against our SQL clusters to determine which server was primary and secondary and which data center they were running in. Perhaps you can do some scripting via SAM using SQL or Powershell. Another thing that may be possible is if there is something in any of the event logs that shows which one is primary and secondary etc, you could scrape the event log with SAM as well. Another option would be to have a script running on the server that sends a syslog or SNMP Trap whenever there is a state change.

eastindy

These are not SQL servers. We have alerts that monitor the components of the application. Like I said above, I can alert on the application being down or up. I am looking for an alert that can tell me that the system has failed over to another server. Then I would like to collect the information on which server the application went down on and the server that came up to put that information in an email/text.

Thank you for your thoughts.