Notes regarding hot backup pairs

You can use a hot backup only for InTouch 7.11 and later clients.

If the Distributed Alarm Display object queries a hot backup pair and then queries the primary provider again separately, the Distributed Alarm Display object shows duplicate records.

Do not configure a provider as a primary or secondary of more than one hot backup pair.

If a record at the primary provider is acknowledged and the secondary provider (which was down when the acknowledgment took place) starts up at a later time, the time stamp of the acknowledged record is identical with the record in the primary provider.

The alarm consumer querying a hot backup pair shows the individual node name as the provider.

You can choose any combination of design-time and run-time alarm record fields for mapping. However, be sure that the mappings do not result in multiple references.

When mapping the Value and Limit key fields, the values are rounded off to the fourth decimal place and then mapped.

An alarm record that does not have the specific combination of design-time and run-time mapping uses the default runtime mapping.