1576264 - CMS Failover Delay in a Clustered Environment

What could be the cause of a long delay in failover to a different CMS?

• When connected to a specific CMS and that CMS is shut down, the Enterprise session failover occurs within seconds.
• If instead the entire machine hosting the CMS is shut down, or made unavailable through other means the failover can take minutes.

Why is there such a big difference in the length of time taken to re-establish the Enterprise session on a different CMS in the cluster?

• Business Objects XI R2.x
• BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1
• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x

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