<chapter id="repmgrd-automatic-failover" xreflabel="Automatic failover with repmgrd">
 <indexterm>
   <primary>repmgrd</primary>
   <secondary>automatic failover</secondary>
 </indexterm>

 <title>Automatic failover with repmgrd</title>

 <para>
  <application>repmgrd</application> is a management and monitoring daemon which runs
  on each node in a replication cluster. It can automate actions such as
  failover and updating standbys to follow the new primary, as well as
  providing monitoring information about the state of each standby.
 </para>


</chapter>
