[Quickfix-developers] Configuration Failover Settings

[Jon D. <jd...@wi...>]

I have been asked to research QuickFIX's scalability/failover capabilities
by our Ops center and have come upon an issue. I think I found a situation
where the clients won't be able to connect to an alternate gateway in case
of a failure.

Let's say a client has two hosts(gateways) to connect to. Each one has a
separate SenderCompID. If the client detects a failure and tries to
connect to the secondary host, it will fail to connect because its
TargetCompID is for the primary host and not the secondary one.

I was wondering if there was a way to have the [SESSION] settings have
alternate TargetCompID's to go a long with SocketConnectPort[n] and
SocketConnectHost[n]?

JD