Disaster Recovery (Alternative Path)

ZEN Master features a disaster recovery feature that enables reverting an entire path after the Source (i.e., Channel/Broadcaster to the Target) to go through an alternative path, which is usually hosted on an alternative cloud/region. The redirection to the alternative path is manual. So, in case of a fault, if there is no time to troubleshoot a problem, this mechanism allows the user to select the feed that has an issue, click a button and revert the stream to go through a pre-configured alternative path. 

For example, if you have a Channel and a Broadcaster on GCP and a secondary Channel and Broadcaster on Azure. If something goes wrong with the GCP path, you can click the Go to Alternative button and failover everything to Azure. 

Setting an Alternative Channel/Broadcaster Cluster

You can configure as an alternative entity, the Channel or the Broadcaster Cluster, but it is not recommended to do both at the same time. This is done by selecting the alternative entity in the Alternative Cluster (Disaster Recovery) field (for Broadcaster Clusters) or the Alternative Channel (Disaster Recovery) field for (Channels).

Failing Over to the Alternative Path