Jamie, are you saying the monitor server in logshipping actually initiates the failover? I thought it just monitored the current health. I haven't used log shipping since 2000, but I remember setting up procedures and scripts to do the failover and failback and we had to kick it off manually (we could have created our own 'trigger' scripts, but wanted a human to make the determination when the system was "down"). The witness server in mirroring does initiate a failover, but I thought logshipping was still manual.

Chad