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Nx Witness can automatically manage failover in multi-server environment. If Server goes down, all cameras are transferred to other Servers and Client is being reconnected to  other Servers as well.  The archive playback will remain seamless, however this may be a 30 seconds gap in recording during the transfer.

Failover should be configured on backup servers. For instance if System contains Server A and Server B it should configure Server A to take over Cameras from Server B and vice versa.

IMPORTANT. To be able to do failover, both server should be able to access cameras.

To configure Failover:

1.Find Server B in Resource Tree, open Context Menu and choose Server Settings.

2.Click Enable Failover.

3.Enter the number of Cameras the server can handle.

4.Click OK. Now If Server A goes down, all cameras will be transferred to Server B.

5.To make Server A handle the cameras from Server B, make the same on Server A.

IMPORTANT. To be able to do failover, Server should be able to handle double amount of cameras.