Collector failover

configuration available when configuring a failover collector are the following fieldsets main collector description select the main collector for which you want the collector to be the failover only collectors of the same type can be selected port description this is the port the main collector will listen on to serve the health status to the failover collector enter a valid tcp port number greater than 1023 if your collector is running without administrator or root privileges and make sure your firewall configuration allows a connection on this port from the host on which the failover collector is running to the host on which the main collector is running host description this is the host address to which the failover collector will try to connect to get the health status of the main collector this can be an ip address or a resolvable hostname timeout description this is the number of seconds the failover collector will wait before becoming “active” after it has deemed the main collector to be unhealthy stop delay description this is the number of seconds the failover collector will wait before returning to the “idle” state after it deemed the main collector to be healthy