Hi,

I need to implement hornetQ with failover for Jboss AS 7.2 (HornetQ: 2.3.0 CR1).

I was able to successfully implement it in the same machine with two different copies of Jboss.

But put  my backup server in a VM there are some problems.

These are the steps that happens

Live server up - OK

Back up server up - OK - "backup announced" log message is there

Live server shutdown. My queues are deployed in backup server and backup log says "Backup Server is now live"

Client tries to publish messages - Publisher does nothing. (No error or anything).

(This same steps worked fine when I had both live and back up instances in the same PC (which is a Virtual machine))

I have attached my standalone-config xmls from back up and live servers.

Difference between working configurations in the same machine VS different machines is that I have added <param key="host" value="LIVESERVER"/> to backup server acceptor and connector, because I initially got some errors

Both were VMs are windows server 2012. I started my servers as follows

Live: standalone.bat --server-config=standalone-full-ha.xml -Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 -Djboss.node.name=jl1

Backup: standalone.bat --server-config=standalone-full-ha.xml -Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 -Djboss.node.name=jbu1

Key snippets from the log file

This is same for both live and backup

  <broadcast-groups>
                    <broadcast-group name="bg-group1">
                        <socket-binding>messaging-group</socket-binding>
                        <broadcast-period>5000</broadcast-period>
                        <connector-ref>
                            netty
                        </connector-ref>
                    </broadcast-group>
                </broadcast-groups>
                <discovery-groups>
                    <discovery-group name="dg-group1">
                        <socket-binding>messaging-group</socket-binding>
                        <refresh-timeout>10000</refresh-timeout>
                    </discovery-group>
                </discovery-groups>
                <cluster-connections>
                    <cluster-connection name="my-cluster">
                        <address>jms</address>
                        <connector-ref>netty</connector-ref>
                        <discovery-group-ref discovery-group-name="dg-group1"/>
                    </cluster-connection>
                </cluster-connections>

Live server

              <connectors>
                    <netty-connector name="netty" socket-binding="messaging">
                    </netty-connector>
                    <netty-connector name="netty-throughput" socket-binding="messaging-throughput">
                        <param key="batch-delay" value="50"/>                    
                    </netty-connector>
                    <in-vm-connector name="in-vm" server-id="0"/>                
                </connectors>
                <acceptors>
                    <netty-acceptor name="netty" socket-binding="messaging">
                    </netty-acceptor>
                    <netty-acceptor name="netty-throughput" socket-binding="messaging-throughput">
                        <param key="batch-delay" value="50"/>
                        <param key="direct-deliver" value="false"/>
                    </netty-acceptor>
                    <in-vm-acceptor name="in-vm" server-id="0"/>                
                </acceptors>

Backup server

  <connectors>
                    <netty-connector name="netty" socket-binding="messaging">
  <param key="host" value="LIVESERVER"/>
  </netty-connector>
                    <netty-connector name="netty-throughput" socket-binding="messaging-throughput">
                        <param key="batch-delay" value="50"/>
                    </netty-connector>
                    <in-vm-connector name="in-vm" server-id="0"/>
                </connectors>
                <acceptors>
                    <netty-acceptor name="netty" socket-binding="messaging">
  <param key="host" value="LIVESERVER"/>
  </netty-acceptor>
                    <netty-acceptor name="netty-throughput" socket-binding="messaging-throughput">
                        <param key="batch-delay" value="50"/>
                        <param key="direct-deliver" value="false"/>
                    </netty-acceptor>
                    <in-vm-acceptor name="in-vm" server-id="0"/>
                </acceptors>

Any help is appreciated.

(I'm not in a position to use latest versions in EAP 6, Wildfly etc because our jboss version is already been in user for a long time now)