When both primary and backup services are running, the failover behavior depends on the following sources of failure:
Service Process
When you disable the service process on a primary node, the service process fails over to a backup node. When the service process on a primary node shuts down unexpectedly, the Service Manager tries to restart the service process before failing it over to a backup node.
After the service process fails over to a backup node, the PowerCenter Integration Service restores the state of operation for the service and restores workflow schedules, service requests, and workflows.
The failover and recovery behavior of the PowerCenter Integration Service after a service process fails depends on the operating mode:
Normal. The PowerCenter Integration Service can recover the workflow based on the workflow state and recovery strategy. If the workflow was enabled for high availability recovery, the PowerCenter Integration Service restores the state of operation for the workflow and recovers the workflow from the point of interruption. The PowerCenter Integration Service performs failover and recovers the schedules, requests, and workflows. If a scheduled workflow is not enabled for high availability recovery, the PowerCenter Integration Service removes the workflow from the schedule.
Safe. The PowerCenter Integration Service does not run scheduled workflows and it disables schedule failover, automatic workflow recovery, workflow failover, and client request recovery. It performs failover and recovers the schedules, requests, and workflows when you enable the service in normal mode.
Service
When the PowerCenter Integration Service becomes unavailable, you must enable the service and start the service processes. You can manually recover workflows and sessions based on the state and the configured recovery strategy. Workflows start if they are configured to run continuously or on initialization. You must reschedule all other workflows.
The workflows that run after you start the service processes depend on the operating mode:
Normal. Workflows start if they are configured to run continuously or on initialization. You must reschedule all other workflows.
Safe. Scheduled workflows do not start. You must enable the service in normal mode to run the scheduled workflows.
Node
When the node becomes unavailable, the failover behavior is the same as the failover for the service process, based on the operating mode.