[rabbitmq-discuss] federated exchange question

Thu Jul 3 17:30:40 BST 2014

On 03/07/2014 5:23PM, Sean Allen wrote:
> i have an exchange A in cluster 1 that is being federated to cluster 2.
>
> that created a queue for said message on a node in cluster 1.
> if that node goes down, what happens? message loss?

Yes.

> if yes, can i use a policy to HA that queue?

Definitely, you are strongly advised to!

You probably also want to set multiple URLs for the cluster 1 upstream 
in cluster 2; then it will fail over whenever a node goes down in cluster 1.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal