Hi, I'm trying to find Information on what possibilities I have to set up two Solaris 9 servers for failover. I only have standard services running (eg. NFS, NIS; no database). One server should be always active. The other server should only take over, when the first server fails (active/standby ???). The premier intend is to have a backup server available, without being physically present to switch. I'm looking for hours about information about a possible setup. Especially I'm interested on Information on appropriate software. I think open-source (if available) would do it. But also commercial software would be no problem. but I don't have a clue about the price range of such software, because most softwareproducer seem to make a big secret of their prices. If someone could point me into the right direction...!? Sincerely, L.

I guess that the biggest question is how much you have to spend. An ideal situation would be to have a master and slave NIS for authentication. The problem is with the NFS portion. I would look into redundant NetApps (http://netapp.com/) as a solution for a NFS server. This filer system works well, however, I believe it is costly. I can't give you a price range as I am not a purchaser. In this model the NIS would mount the NetApp shares and be the NFS server to the domain. When one NetApp went down, the other would automatically take over (roughly 45 seconds).