Monitoring Failover Manager

If you are using EDB Failover Manager to monitor your replication scenario, you must manually install and configure Failover Manager. For detailed information about installing Failover Manager, visit the EnterpriseDB website at:

https://www.enterprisedb.com/products/edb-postgres-platform/edb-postgres-failover-manager

To monitor the status of a Failover Manager cluster on the Streaming Replication dashboard, you must provide the following information on the Advanced tab of the server Properties dialog for each node of the cluster:

• Use the EFM Cluster Name field to specify the name of the Failover Manager cluster. The cluster name is the prefix of the name of the cluster properties file. For example, if your cluster properties file is named efm.properties, your cluster name is efm.
• Use the EFM Installation Path field to specify the location of the Failover Manager binary file. By default, the Failover Manager binary file is installed in /usr/efm-2.1/bin.

After registering your servers, the Streaming Replication Analysis dashboard will display status information about your EFM cluster near the bottom of the dashboard.

The Failover Manager cluster status report

The Failover Manager Cluster Status section of the Streaming Replication Analysis dashboard displays information about the monitored cluster:

The Failover Manager Cluster Information table provides information about the Failover Manager cluster:

• The Properties column displays the name of the cluster property.
• The Values column displays the current value of the property.

The Failover Manager Node Status table displays information about each node of the Failover Manager cluster:

• The Agent Type column displays the type of agent that resides on the node; the possible values are Master, Standby, Witness, Idle, and Promoting.
• The Address column displays the IP address of the node.
• The Agent column displays the status of the agent that resides on the node.
• The DB column displays the status of the database that resides on the node.
• The XLog Location column displays the transaction log location of the database.
• The Status Information column displays any error-related information about the node.
• The XLog Information column displays any error-related information about the transaction log.
• The VIP column displays the VIP address that is associated with the node.
• The VIP Status column displays True if the VIP is active for the node, False if the VIP is not.

Replacing a Master Node

You can use the PEM client to replace the Master node of a Failover Manager cluster with a standby node. To initiate the failover process, select Replace Cluster Master from the Management menu. A dialog opens, asking you to confirm that you wish to replace the current master node.

Replacing the Master node of a cluster

Select Yes to remove the current master node from the Failover Manager cluster and promote a standby node to the role of read/write master node within a Failover Manager cluster. The node with the highest promotion priority (defined in Failover Manager) will become the new master node. PEM will display a dialog, reporting the job status.

Confirmation of the promotion

When the job completes and the Streaming Replication Analysis dashboard refreshes, you can review the Failover Manager Node Status table to confirm that a standby node has been promoted to the role of master within the Failover Manager cluster.