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Configuring failover for standard cluster jobs

To configure failover for a standard cluster, you will be using the Double-Take Availability Failover Control Center. This is a legacy console that is eventually being phased into the Double-Take Console. To access this console, select Start, Programs, Double-Take, Availability, Double-Take Availability Failover Control Center.

Click Add Target and enter the name or IP address of your failover target. If your target is a cluster, specify the current owning node of the cluster.
Click OK.
Click Login to login to the selected target.
Select a source machine to monitor by clicking Add Monitor. The Insert Source Machine dialog box appears in front of the Monitor Settings dialog box.
If your source is a standalone server, enter the name or IP address of the source. If your source is a cluster, click Custom and specify the virtual IP address on the source cluster.
Click OK.
In the Names to Monitor tree, select the IP addresses on the source that you want to monitor.
Highlight an IP address that you have selected for monitoring and select a Target Adapter that will assume that IP address during failover. Repeat this process for each IP address that is being monitored.
Highlight an IP address that you have selected for monitoring and select a Method to Monitor for Failover.

Network Service—Source availability will be tested for by a Double-Take Availability network response
Replication Service—Source availability will be tested for by a Double-Take service response.
Network and Replication—Source availability will be tested for by both a Double-Take Availability network response and a Double-Take service response.
No Monitoring—Double-Take Availability does not actively monitor the source. You will be responsible for identifying when a failure has occurred and initiating failover manually.

Repeat step 9 for each IP address that is being monitored.
Enable the Failover Hostname and Failback Hostname options, if you are using Active Directory. Click Credentialsand identify a user and the associated password that has privileges to create and delete SPNs. The username must be in the format fully_qualified_domain\user.
Click Scripts and specify a post-failover and pre-failback script. The post-failover script must contain the command cluster group “Group_Name” /ONLINE where Group_Name is the name of the resource to bring online. The pre-failback script must contain the command cluster resource “IP_Address” /OFFLINE where IP_Address is the IP address to take offline.
If you want to use a source post-failback script and are using a cluster to cluster or cluster to standalone environment, you will not be able to specify credentials on the source for the post-failback script. You will have to modify the account use to run the Double-Take service on the source and use an account that has the proper privileges to run the source post-failback script.
Use the default settings for the remaining options.
Click OK to save the settings and return to the main Failover Control Center window.
If your target is a cluster, repeat all of these steps to establish monitoring on the non-owning nodes of the cluster, so that in the event they become an owning node, the will be monitoring the source for failover.