How does the Agent 6.0 Bodies download failover work?
While getting Usenet bodies from a newsgroup Agent, as always, will honor the access plan specified for that group. Agent 6.0 adds a new access plan option, When an error occurs, failover to the next server in the plan to the News Access Plan panel of the Default Properties and Properties dialogs. Here’s a simple explanation for how this works: Say you have servers A and B enabled in your access plan. You start retrieving a message body from server A (as specified in your access plan), which then, for some reason, fails. Agent will pause body retrieval from server A and start retrieving body sections from server B. However, while retrieving bodies from server B Agent will periodically attempt to resume retrieving bodies from server A, and if successful will switch back to using server A.
