A windows VBScript that will make a very simple failover solution for Windows Basically you have 2 servers running with the configuration you want. When the live server goes down the backup server will take on the IP address of the live server.
This script is tested on these platforms by the author. It is likely to work on other platforms as well. If you try it and find that it works on another platform, please add a note to the script discussion to let others know.