topic Re: Activiti Engine in primary-standbyserver setup in Alfresco Archive

Activiti Engine in primary-standbyserver setup

sankalpn — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:55:28 GMT

Hi all, I am using embedded activiti engine for my workflows. In production deployment, we have two servers in primary-standby mode and I don't control that deployment. Both the servers share activiti engine database, as standby needs to pick up workflow execution in case of fail-over. Now,

Re: Activiti Engine in primary-standbyserver setup

jbarrez — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:55:51 GMT

1 and 2) Do you have the job executor running on both servers? If so, they will both try to execute jobs.
You will have to disable the executor on the second node if you don't want that.

3) Typically, a set of nodes behind a loadbalancer is what is used. Any request can be handled by any node.

Re: Activiti Engine in primary-standbyserver setup

sankalpn — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:48:43 GMT

Ah. Disabling job executor was the solution!

Thanks,
Sankalp