Identify all server names and port numbers for each OpenSwitch server and each Adaptive Server in your installation.
If you plan to install two OpenSwitch servers and two Adaptive Servers, you must provide the server name, host name, and port number for each server. If you plan to implement mutually-aware support, you must also include the server name, host name, and port number for the companion OpenSwitch server as the last line in the entry of the other OpenSwitch server.
Identify an OpenSwitch Connection Monitor (CMON). CMON monitors Adaptive Servers and asynchronously notifies threads as soon as connectivity to the remote server is lost.
Define your server pool. A pool is a group of servers within OpenSwitch. A pool can contain one or more servers that are treated as a self-contained failover group, so all connections within the group fail over only to servers defined within the group.
Determine what actions to take when a failure occurs. OpenSwitch fails over to the next available server in the pool by default. If you plan to implement a failover solution in mutually-aware support, you can decide what action to take when a specific failover event occurs.
