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PRTG Clustering - DNS in a failover scenario

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Hello,

i have set up a prtg cluster with a primary and a secondary node.

Now if i shutdown the primary node, the failover node takes over.

I have set up a dns name "monitoring.domain.local" on the primary node in the userinterface configuration tab. Now the local dns record is logically only for the primary node, in a failover scenario i only can reach the secondary by the ip-address.

Was just wondering, what's the best practise for this set up?

Thanks in advance.

cluster dns failover prtg

Created on Sep 15, 2021 8:19:15 AM



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Hello Marcel,

Yes, If the master/primary node is offline, you can only reach the secondary/failover node by its IP/DNS name. You cannot use the primary node's DNS name since there's no forwarding. You could configure such forwarding within your network but not within PRTG itself I'm afraid.

Created on Sep 17, 2021 12:12:12 PM by Timo Dambach [Paessler Support]




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