Enhanced Failover
The Enhanced Failover e-book is intended for process control engineers, integrators, and developers responsible for designing and creating operator displays, and configuring the development and run-time environments. The manual assumes familiarity with the process database, the iFIX WorkSpace, and the System Configuration Utility (SCU).
For New Users of Enhanced Failover:
This e-book contains the following sections to help you work with and understand the iFIX Enhanced Failover features:
- Terms for Working with Enhanced Failover
- Components of Enhanced Failover
- What is Enhanced Failover?
- What is my SCADA Role?
- Introduction to Enhanced Failover
- Understanding Enhanced Failover
- Security Checks Used with Enhanced Failover
- Configuring a SCADA Server Pair for Enhanced Failover
- Monitoring Network Status
- Troubleshooting Enhanced Failover
- Client Operations
- Maintenance Mode
For Existing Users of Enhanced Failover:
If you are upgrading from a version of iFIX (before iFIX 5.0) with the previous Failover solution, be sure to refer to the Differences Between Enhanced Failover and Failover in Previous iFIX Releases section in this e-book and Enhanced Failover and Upgrading section in the Getting Started with iFIX e-book before you begin configuring or using the Enhanced Failover feature.
A configuration checklist is provided in the Checklist for Enhanced Failover Configuration section as overview. If you are familiar with iFIX, this should get you started quickly in making your updates.
The only changes between iFIX 5.0 and the current version of iFIX are the addition of the Enhanced Failover Runtime Information (SCADASync) tags, and various server enhancements (that do not require any configuration changes). For more information on the SCADASync tags, refer to the Runtime Information Fields for Enhanced Failover section.
