Dataminer cloud connection : Failover pair – DMZ

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According to documentation, for a failover pair you will need to setup two DMZ servers, each pointing to one of the two agents in the pair.  This means for example a system with 3 FO pairs will potentially need 6 DMZ servers. This seems quite a lot.

Is it possible / supported to point the DMZ to the virtual IP of each pair thereby halving the number of DMZ servers needed ?

Wale Oguntoyinbo [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 20th February 2023

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Hi Wale

we have not tested this but this should work in theory. There are some side notes to be made:

  1. we would advise you to assign a domain to the virtual IP of each pair and use that to generate secure https certificates to have a secure connection towards the webapis
  2. when switching the failover pair all current connections will disconnect and reconnect with the new failover agent, which will be noticeable by end users eg when they are looking at a shared dashboard

Please let us know if we can assist in any setup or testing.

Wale Oguntoyinbo [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 20th February 2023
Wale Oguntoyinbo [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented

Thanks Baptiste, I will reach out if further assistance is required.