October 24, 2012 at 10:56 pm
Hello,
I have setup "Always On" on named SQL Instances. I have setup the listener as well. I can not connect through listener if I don't use Listener DNS name followed by name of the instance in the Servername. I expect it to work without appending the name of the instance after the listener name. I have different instance names on different nodes, so I can't do automatic failover using the Listener.
In case of default instance I believe I wouldn't be having this issue. Does listener works only with default SQL Instances or am I missing something here ?
Thanks in advance,
Vikas
October 25, 2012 at 4:04 am
The listener has no concept of instance names, its a connection route into the AlwaysOn availability group. What details are you using to connect via the listener?
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October 25, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Hello,
Thanks for your reply.
Consider this scenario:
4 WSFC Nodes with each node having different instance names on them
NodeName SQLInstanceName
HANode1 DBS1
HANode2 DBS2
HANode3 DBS3
HANode4 DBS4
We then create a Availability group "AG1" on these nodes with a Listener name "AGListener" (Listener DNS Name).
Initially HANode1\DBS1 is the primary DB server and if we try to conncect to this DB server through just a Listener DNS name, we will not be able to connect (which I thought should work). We need to say AGListener\DBS1 in order to connect to the DB instance. If you failover your Primary to node HANode4, then in order to connect to the DB Server we need to use DB Server Name as AGListener\DBS4 in the connection string.
The whole idea of having a listener is not to change your DB Servername in the connection string and handle all the failovers seamlessly.
The workaround for this is to have same SQL Instance names on all the nodes participating in WSFC. If it's a default instance on all the nodes, then we don't have to worry about anything.
Cheers,
Vikas
March 5, 2013 at 11:55 pm
I have configured a Listener (say AG_LITEN) with port 5152 using static IP on SQL 2012 named instances.
When i try to connect using Listener in SSMS it doesn't connect whereas when i pass the IP port number (which i have used to configure the Listener) along with Listener name (AG_LISTN,5152) it work like a charm. I tried doing manual fail over and the same connection string connect to the new primary node.
Give it a try.
August 7, 2013 at 2:28 am
The browser service wont help detect the listener port. You will have to specify that in the conn string.
Unless that 1433.
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