Confirming the availability of failover

Confirming the availability of failover.

1. Use the chkconfig command to determine if failover is enabled.
2. If failover is not enabled, turn it on and start the failover script or restart the server. Figure 1 shows an example of what commands to type if failover is disabled.
   Figure 1. Example of commands to turn failover on

   #chkconfig | grep failover 
           failover             off
   #chkconfig failover on     
   #/etc/init.d/failover init 
   #Configuring Failover.