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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:51:05 +1000
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Subject: Re: Managing Watchers
From: Cameron McKenzie <mckenzie.cam@gmail.com>
To: user@zookeeper.apache.org, Vikrant Singh <vikrant@yahoo-inc.com>
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hey Vikrant,
If you just need primary / standby failover then a standard leader election
should work. Have a look at the Curator recipe.

http://curator.apache.org/curator-recipes/leader-latch.html

cheers


On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Vikrant Singh <
vikrant@yahoo-inc.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hello zookeeper users,I am experimenting/prototyping a zookeeper
> installation.One part of the same is a watchClient which monitor various
> znodes (by applying watches) and perform some action according to triggered
> watch.
> As part of plan we need to have multiple instances of this watchClient
> running against same set of nodes. Idea is to have one client taking all
> the load, while other is on standby mode.This is done primarily to make
> sure that there is a backup capacity. If primary process dies, other
> process (on standby) takes over the load.
> Question I wanted to ask is that is there any zookeeper recipe or
> framework which gives us this functionality? I wanted to use something
> existing which is will proven/tested before choosing to write from scratch.
> Thanks,Vikrant
>

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