# Reconnect Timeout

When a standby server assumes the role of the active server during failover, clients attempt to reconnect to the standby server (that is, the new active) and continue processing their current message state. Before accepting reconnects from the clients, the new active server reads its message state from the shared state files.

You can instruct the server to clean up state information for clients that do not reconnect before the time limit specified by the `ft_reconnect_timeout` configuration parameter. The `ft_reconnect_timeout` time starts once the server has fully recovered the shared state, so this value does not account for the time it takes to recover the store files. See `ft_reconnect_timeout` for details.

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