Privately-held OpenVision Technologies Inc has launched Axxion-HA for automated restart services and high performance failover. It offers the kind of failover capabilities that Microsoft Corp’s Wolfpack technology is only promising, says the company. Compatible with Sun and Solaris systems such as the Cray CS 6400, and Windows NT, it eliminates single point of server failure ensuring continuous operations of critical systems, applications, databases and services. Using AXXiON-HA, administrators are able to restart any service from the user interface, as well as decide how to apply business rules in response to failure: when to restart services on a primary server or initiate an automatic failover to an alternate machine. In all cases, administrators are supposed to be able to implement an HA solution with no kernel changes. By logging errors and events as they occur, AXXiON-HA will also improve system administration, claims OpenVision. Databases, Internet servers and file systems are among services where organizations may apply the new product. An extensibility feature adds a custom application kit that allows administrators to create agents for client/server applications such as Oracle Financials, SAP R/3, and PeopleSoft HRMS, as well as for mail servers, worldwide web servers, security servers. Organizations can also choose to failover multiple primary servers to one backup server. Features include; restart and failover services for databases, applications, servers and file systems, and multiple server failover to a single secondary server. Prices were not available.
