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Can a Proxy be set to go to priimary Real endpoint and Failover to secondary Virtual Asset?

CurtisOD
CurtisOD Posts: 2 ✭
edited August 2017 in Virtualize

If so, what are the parameters for the fail-over? Timeout or 50X/40X response?

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  • Ramiro Martinez
    Ramiro Martinez Posts: 53 admin

    Hi Curtis,

    Yes, this can be done with a message proxy.
    You would create a message proxy and configure a Secondary Connection:

    The fail over triggers when the proxy receives a Error status code 4XX or 5XX.

    Clip of the Virtualize user guide in regards to this feature:

  • CurtisOD
    CurtisOD Posts: 2 ✭

    Perfect!

  • jefftuckerbofa
    jefftuckerbofa Posts: 234 ✭

    Can you be more specific on the following statement

    "if a virtual asset does not handle a use case" Does this mean if a match is not found on the primary endpoint the proxy would then attempt to use the secondary option? I understand that if the primary option is offline the proxy would fail over. But, if it is simply a matter of not finding an exact matching response (IOW The book ID was not found in the data source) would the proxy try the secondary?

  • jefftuckerbofa
    jefftuckerbofa Posts: 234 ✭

    I did some research and based on what I encountered, the Virtual Asset will return an HTTP 400 when it can't find a match. That, as mentioned above, will cause a request to the secondary endpoint.

  • williammccusker
    williammccusker Posts: 673 ✭✭✭

    Hi Jeff,
    It will fail over for any http status code that is 400 or greater. So a 404 would fail over to the virtual asset and so would a 500.

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