On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, paddycarman <paddy.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > In a Master/Slave setup AFAIK, the individual brokers have different IP > addresses. Let's say that a device would like to connect to a Master/Slave > setup using a client lib (say MQTT). How do we do failover in this case? As > far as I understand, the failover protocol is only for JMS connections. >
Correct. Failover is mostly a function of the client lib. > * Should the client know the IP addresses of both the Master and Slave and > handle connection failures on its own by connecting to the slave if the > master fails? > Yes. > * Is there a way to advertise a single IP address for the Master/Slave setup > and hide the details of the setup from the client? Yes. Use TCP load balancer in front of the master/slave pairs. Something like HAProxy should work. > > Thanks in advance. > Paddy > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Connecting-to-Master-Slave-from-client-libs-MQTT-STOMP-etc-and-failover-tp4681129.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Hiram Chirino Engineering | Red Hat, Inc. hchir...@redhat.com | fusesource.com | redhat.com skype: hiramchirino | twitter: @hiramchirino
