UPDATE ......From Tuesday 8 April 2025 we have changed the way that Single Sign-on works on this wiki. Please see here for more information:
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In a nutshell, the script tries to Ping the primary server 3 times. If it does not get a response, then it checks for the existence of the /var/lib/dbeacon/EUMET/failover.chk file. If it does not exist, then it creates the file with the contents Process Emails And Alarms. The existence of this file tells the Backup server that it needs to take control of the back-end monitoring.
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