The invention relates to an IEC (integrated Ethernet chip) 104 communication host-standby switching method under high redundancy configuration. A first monitoring system server and a second monitoring system sever which are adopted as monitoring systems of a master station are divided into a host machine and a standby machine; and four ports of the host machine and the standby machine are named as A1, A2, B1 and B2 respectively, wherein, one of the four port is a main port, the other three ports are standby ports, the four ports are peer-to-peer, and the switching sequence of control right isA1,A2, B1, B2, A1, A2..., thereby forming a logical ring. A channel state and a control right belonging state which are needed when the four ports of the monitoring system are switched are obtained from a real time database of the monitoring system, the port is suspended for preset time after the control right is received, and then the control right is switched. Data is all broadcasted firstly and is written into the real time database by a broadcast. The IEC 104 communication SOE (sequence of event) data is ensured to be transmitted in each channel simultaneously by the policy provided by the method under the configuration with two host machines and four channels of the monitoring system, and the consistency and the integrality of the IEC104 communication data can be ensured under all conditions.