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The Connexion Cluster, shown above, consists of 2 physical, or virtual, machines, which are bound to the same Connexion Configuration Database. The Connexion Cluster operates in an Active/Passive mode where the Active node performs work, and the Passive node is idle until the Active node fails, or a user manually changes the Active node.

Since many of the Connections coming into Connexion will be HL7, a network switch (hardware, or software) must be used to route the network traffic to the active node in the cluster. Connexion can be configured to have the active node periodically ping the Network Switch to notify the switch which node in the cluster the network traffic should be directed to.

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Configuring Database Mirroring

Connexion version 14 can be deployed in active-passive pairs in order to provide hot fail-over. In order to provide a fully automatic fail-over using Sql Server Mirroring, the following components are required:

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