Hafailover - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Command Reference Manual

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haFailover

haFailover
Forces the failover mechanism so that the standby control processor (CP) becomes the active CP.
Synopsis hafailover
Description Use this command to force the failover mechanism to occur so that the standby CP becomes the
active CP. In case the active and standby CPs are not synchronized or the system is not in
redundant mode, the command aborts.
Notes When High Availability (HA) synchronization is enabled and the CPs are in sync, the port traffic light
does not flash during the failover, even while traffic is continuing to flow.
This command is supported only on dual-CP systems.
The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.
Operands none
Examples To force the failover of the active CP to the standby CP in the switch:
See Also haDisable, haEnable, haShow
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switch:admin> hafailover
Local CP (Slot 7, CP1): Active, Warm Recovered
Remote CP (Slot 6, CP0): Standby, Healthy
HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized
Warning: This command is being run on a redundant control processor(CP)
system, and this operation will cause the active CP to reset.
Therefore all existing telnet sessions are required to be restarted.
Are you sure you want to fail over to the standby CP [y/n]?
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