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redundancy switchover
C i s c o C o n f i d e n t i a l - B e t a R e v i e w R 3 . 7. 1
redundancy switchover
To cause the primary (active) route processor (RP) to fail over to the redundant standby RP, use the
redundancy switchover command in EXEC or administration EXEC mode. To disable the forced
failover, use the no form of this command.
Syntax Description
location node-id
Defaults No default behavior or values
Command Modes EXEC
Administration EXEC
Command History Release
Release 3.7.1
Usage Guidelines To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes the proper
task IDs.
Use the redundancy switchover command to trigger a failover from the primary RP to the standby RP.
When the redundancy switchover command is issued, the running (committed) configuration is
automatically saved and loaded during failover, and the standby RP becomes the active primary RP,
while the original primary RP becomes the standby RP.
The redundancy switchover command can be used only if the standby RP is in the ready state. Use the
Note
show redundancy command to view the status of the RPs.
Task ID Task ID
root-lr
Examples
The following example shows partial output for a successful redundancy switchover operation:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show redundancy
Redundancy information for node 0/RP0/CPU0:
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Node 0/RP0/CPU0 is in ACTIVE role
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redundancy switchover [location node-id]
no redundancy switchover [location node-id]
(Optional) Specifies the primary RP on which to force a failover. The node-id
argument is expressed in the rack/slot/module notation.
Modification
This command was introduced on the Cisco ASR 14000 Series Router.
Operations
read, write
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