<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Not sure based on what you’ve described. A possibility is that you’ve forgotten to start the application on b.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The next step, though, would be to also use a boot script. You could use rebar, relx, OTP systools or my personal pet project, setup [1].</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Using a boot script, your applications are started automatically, or in the case of distributed apps, at least prepared to start, so that failover/takeover can work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BR,</div><div class="">Ulf W</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="http://github.com/uwiger/setup" class="">http://github.com/uwiger/setup</a></div><div class=""> <a href="https://github.com/uwiger/setup/wiki/Example:-generating-boot-scripts-from-a-running-system" class="">https://github.com/uwiger/setup/wiki/Example%3A-generating-boot-scripts-from-a-running-system</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Jan 2015, at 12:09, Nuku Ameyibor <<a href="mailto:nayibor@gmail.com" class="">nayibor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">hi ulf ,<div class="">thanks.</div><div class="">the takeover is working okay now !!! .</div><div class="">config a is this </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">[{kernel,</div><div class=""> [{distributed, [{m8ball,</div><div class=""> 5000,</div><div class=""> [a@ZION, {b@ZION, c@ZION}]}]},</div><div class=""> {sync_nodes_mandatory, [b@ZION, c@ZION]},</div><div class=""> {sync_nodes_timeout, 30000}</div><div class=""> ]</div><div class=""> }</div><div class="">].</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">i start each node with </div><div class="">bin\werl.exe -sname c -config C:\wamp\www\erlang\proj\m8ball\apps\m8ball_1_0_0\config\c.config<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">there are 3 nodes .their conf files are similar with sync_nodes_mandatory being slightly different .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a small question .</div><div class="">the first round of failover and takeover seems to work fine .</div><div class="">but after the first round (start node a,b,c . kill a b does failover .kill b c does failover . restart a,b a does takeover from c killing c application on c .i restart shell on c )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""> after the first round when i try to do a failover onto b by killing a it doesnt work .</b></div><div class="">was wondering how come since the first round of failover take over worked fine .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Ulf Wiger <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ulf@feuerlabs.com" target="_blank" class="">ulf@feuerlabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Jan 2015, at 03:44, Nuku Ameyibor <<a href="mailto:nayibor@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">nayibor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class="">=INFO REPORT==== 23-Jan-2015::02:20:57 ===</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class="">global: Name conflict terminating {m8ball_server,<2910.62.0>}</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div></span><div class="">This suggests that you’re connecting the nodes *after* starting your applications, so that the application processes have time to globally register themselves first. Global detects the name conflict when trying to merge the registries of the two nodes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can for example use the ‘distributed’ option, described here:</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/kernel/application.html#load-1" target="_blank" class="">http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/kernel/application.html#load-1</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/kernel_app.html" target="_blank" class="">http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/kernel_app.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BR,</div><div class="">Ulf W</div><br class=""><div class="">
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