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vijays3
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Posted - 2010-04-12 : 10:10:18

I have some task to accomplish n need your help if you could help me…

We have one server that is used for sending alrts like log space, job completion or failure ,backup alerts, server available or unavailable and so on. Our job alerts are completely dependent on this
server.if it goes down or become unavailable in this case we can not see the alerts because we don’t have any alternative.

So my question is I want to setup the server2 in case of unavailability of the server1 should start sending alerts and all latest database should be on server2 …

What could be the solution for this replication or log shipping or any other approach

tkizer
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Posted - 2010-04-12 : 17:55:02
It just depends on where all of these alerts are stored. Log shipping is only used to replicate the tlog of a user database. It isn't used to transfer jobs or other things.

To move jobs to another server, you can easily script them out in SSMS.

How else are your alerts stored?

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vijays3
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

354 Posts

Posted - 2010-04-13 : 02:33:02
Thanks for your input on this...

We are going to setup the all alerts jobs on SERVER2 as well.By using the log shipping we can get the TLOG of users databases..But How could SERVER2 start sending alerts itself if SERVER1 is down...

I read about the clustering it can make it possible on the failure of SERVER1 ,Server2 will start doing the same work as SERVER1 does..But i dont want to use clustering in my case becaz it is expensive..

Is there any script which makes it possible.



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VIjay Sahu
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tkizer
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Posted - 2010-04-13 : 14:31:58
You'll need to write custom scripts for this, but clustering is the way to go. We cluster all of our production servers.

Tara Kizer
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