DRS clients work with virtual IP or FQDN for a seamless switchover to the active System Manager when failover, failback, or split network occurs.

DRS clients provide an audit mechanism to determine if the active System Manager contains the required data to resume synchronization. After a state change, the audit mechanism validates the last batch of data that is replicated to the element with the last batch of the data in the active System Manager. The state change includes failover, failback, and split network.

During the audit, if the element contains more recent data than the data available on the active System Manager, the system marks the element for repair. Otherwise the system marks the element as in-sync with System Manager.