Manually Switching Over To The Standby Management Module - IBM s-series Installation And User Manual

Figure 32. Active and standby management module file synchronization

Manually switching over to the standby management module

This section describes how to manually switch the role of active management
module from the currently active module to the standby module.
Note: Starting in software release 05.0.00, hitless switchover is supported. An
You can cause the system to switch over to the standby module (and thus make it
the active module). To do so, enter the following command:
# switch-over-active-role
Once you enter this command, the system will prompt you as follows:
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enhancement to the manual switchover feature, a hitless switchover enables
a switchover of the active management module to standby module without
interrupting switched traffic. For details, see "Layer 2 hitless switchover" on
page 83.
Active Management Module
Boot code
Standb y Management Module
Boot code