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EDB Failover Manager™¶
EDB Failover Manager™
EDB Postgres Failover Manager (EFM) is a high-availability module from EnterpriseDB that enables a Postgres primary node to automatically failover to a Standby node in the event of a software or hardware failure on the primary.
This guide provides information about installing, configuring and using Failover Manager 4.0. For information about the platforms and versions supported by Failover Manager 4.0, visit the EnterpriseDB website at:
This document uses Postgres to mean either the PostgreSQL or EDB Postgres Advanced Server database.
- What’s New
- Failover Manager Overview
- Installing Failover Manager
- Configuring Failover Manager
- Using Failover Manager
- Monitoring a Failover Manager Cluster
- Using the efm Utility
- Controlling the Failover Manager Service
- Controlling Logging
- Notifications
- Supported Failover and Failure Scenarios
- Upgrading an Existing Cluster
- Troubleshooting
- Configuring Streaming Replication
- Configuring SSL Authentication on a Failover Manager Cluster
- Conclusion