Configuring With Cluster Services; Running Ftp Server In Active/Active And Active/Passive Modes; Editing Ftpserv.cfg Configuration Files - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

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Running FTP Server in Active/Active and Active/Passive
Modes

Editing FTPSERV.CFG Configuration Files

Configuring with Cluster Services

Before configuring NetWare
NetWare FTP Server must be installed on each server in your cluster that will
run it. NetWare FTP Server is selected by default during the NetWare 6.0
installation, and might already be installed.
Running NetWare FTP Server in the ACTIVE/ACTIVE mode is the
recommended configuration because it provides faster recovery after a failure.
In this mode, FTP Server runs simultaneously on multiple servers in the
cluster. When a Web server fails, the FTP sites on that server fail over to other
FTP servers in the cluster. Only FTP sites move in ACTIVE/ACTIVE mode.
NetWare FTP Server can also be run in ACTIVE/PASSIVE mode. In this
mode, FTP Server runs on only one node in the cluster at a time. When a Web
server fails, FTP Server starts on other specified nodes in the cluster, and the
FTP sites that were on the failed server fail over to other nodes in the cluster.
This makes ACTIVE/PASSIVE mode marginally slower because FTP Server
has to load on other servers in the cluster before FTP sites can fail over.
The configuration file FTPSERV.CFG is created by default during the FTP
Server installation and is placed in the SYS:\ETC directory. A separate
FTPSERV.CFG file exists for each FTP Server that is installed on the cluster.
Each FTPSERV.CFG file contains a line that specifies the IP address assigned
to the FTP server. By default, the IP address assigned to the FTP server is the
same IP address that is assigned to the NetWare server where the FTP server
resides.
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