Questions regarding Failover Candidate

[John-Harald]

Hi, Qlik Community.
I have some questions in regards to Qlik Sense. We’re in the process of setting up a multi-node environment of Qlik Sense on windows. And with that I was wondering how the Failover Candidate works. We have two Qlik instances and one DB/File server.

1. Will the Failover Candidate work as an active node that can take on work loads?
2. Will the Failover Candidate work as a scheduler node and be able to reload data?
3. Can I use Load Balancing rules to assign apps specifically to the Central and Failover Nodes as I would with rim/consumer nodes?
4. If I make Load Balancing rules to drive apps to specific nodes, and one of the two fail, will the apps then go to work on the remaining node?

Any answers and insights would be greatly appreciated
- John

[Chip_Matejowsky · Accepted solution]

Hi @John-Harald,

Have a look at the following Qlik Help entry and Qlik KB article:

• Configuring Failover for Central Node Resiliency
• Qlik Sense Failover Central Node:  Requirements and Considerations 

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Load balancing rules can employ and/or logic - refer to Qlik Help entry Creating Load Balancing Rules

Best Regards