To Disable Sc Failover; To Enable Sc Failover; To Perform A Manual Sc Failover - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire 6800 Administration Manual

To Disable SC Failover

From the platform shell on either the main or spare SC, type:
schostname:
A message indicates failover is disabled. Note that SC failover remains disabled
until you re-enable it (see the next procedure).

To Enable SC Failover

From the platform shell on either the main or spare SC, type:
schostname:
The following message is displayed while the failover software verifies the failover-
ready state of the system controllers:
SC Failover: enabled but not active.
Within a few minutes, after failover readiness has been verified, the following
message is displayed on the console, indicating that SC failover is activated:
SC Failover: enabled and active.

To Perform a Manual SC Failover

1. Be sure that other SC commands are not currently running on the main SC.
2. From the platform shell on either the main or spare SC, type:
schostname:
A failover from one SC to the other occurs, unless there are fault conditions (for
example, the spare SC is not available or the connection link between the SCs is
down) that prevent the failover from taking place.
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SC> setfailover off
SC> setfailover on
SC> setfailover force