# Wowza origin failover
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-failover/34015
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** server-administration
**Created:** [October 11, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-failover/34015 "2012-10-11T15:19:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Andre\_Ficker](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andre_Ficker)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-failover/34015/1 "2012-10-11T15:19:48Z")
hi,
I have two wowza servers configured as ORIGIN servers, and four wowza servers configured as EDGE servers.
How can I assure failover if one of the origin servers dies? I’m talking about VOD and LIVE streaming.
So let’s say I have 2 edge servers connected to origin1 and 2 edge servers connected to origin2 server. Origin1 dies. What mechanism can I use for wowza to be able to detect that origin1 is down and switch all users from edge servers to the existing origin2 server? I don’t want to do that manually. Dynamic Load Balancing solution? Is that it?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-failover/34015/2 "2012-10-11T14:41:59Z")
There is nothing built-in to Wowza to do that. You can configure a backup origin, either in Application.xml /OriginURL with pipe delimited URLs, or in a .stream file with pipe delimited URLs, but this only works for a new client connecting to an edge. Clients streaming from an edge that is re-streaming from a failed origin are not handled. If you have Flash RTMP clients you can use remote calls (IApplicationInstance.broadcastMsg) to tell them to re-connect
Richard