Some redundancy with the FTP adapter 2006?

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    • October 6, 2006 at 3:19 AM #15974
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        Hi,

         I'm rather new to Biztalk, so my apologizes is my questions are not high level:).

        I'm currently setting up a biztalk platform that will,among things, collect messages from an FTP server. So, I created a host for FTP communication, add this host in the Adapter settings, and created my ports.

        So far so good, until I create a host instance on each BZT servers (I have two so far), then (as expected according to doc) problems started as both instances were trying to access/delete the same files.

        So, I did remove one of the host instance, everything now works, but then, I do not have redundancy.

        Doc refers to clustering the host for FTP redundancy, which is not an option for at this point of time. Therefore I'm looking for any other solution that could bring some redundancy on my FTP connections.

        I though about re-create the host instance on the second server, not allowing it to start, and have some script to start it up if the of the first server fails. Is that something coherent / "smart" ? is there any other option (other than clustering ) ?

         thanks

        Chris

      • October 6, 2006 at 3:41 AM #15975
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          A couple of suggestions from Microsoft:
          1. Have a cold stand-by host instance and use a script to detect failure in
          first instance and initiate second instance
          http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/BTS_2004WP/html/922d9b1a-c6f2-4d42-9f7a-2876eac7f50d.asp

          2. Cluster two Biztalk servers to handle the adapters that can only have one
          instance
          http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/biztalk/2006/library/bts06clustering/ee66663c-4f4d-4515-9df1-aacf4fc72be4.mspx?mfr=true

           

          • October 6, 2006 at 8:04 AM #15976
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              Hi,

              Your point 1 is perfectly fitting my needs.

              Will start from Monday with testing the secript and setup everything.

              Thanks a lot for this flash-speed answer !

               

              Chris

               

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