Hi, perl newb presented with and interesting challenge. For this scenario, I'm working with a list of 3 parent elements that contain 2 child elements apiece. I do not have the luxury of working with a database, so a lot of hand jamming the parents/children will take place.

Asia_primary: Tokyo, Seoul

Europe_primary: London, Moscow

Africa_primary: Cairo, Algiers

Where this gets tricky, is in the event of failover. The children do not failover to the same secondary parents. As an example, Asia will be brought offline:

Asia_primary: Down

Europe_primary: London, Moscow, Tokyo

Africa_primary: Cairo, Algiers, Seoul

For the code, am guessing I would need to create a hash of hashes

%parent = ( 
       "europe" => {
       "london"    => "london",
       "moscow"     => "moscow",
       },
       "asia"     => {
        "tokyo"   => "tokyo", 
        "seoul"   => "seoul",
         },
       "africa"    => { 
        "cario"   => "cariro", 
        "algiers"   => "algiers", 
        },
     );

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How to handle a down parent and push the children to the secondary parent? Am guessing an additional hash for each scenario would be required. Would appreciate any assistance.

In reply to Scripting Failover Scenario by ahjohnson2

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