If you want to swap roles between the members of a failover pair, you can manually initiate a failover. Within about five minutes after initiating a manual failover, the secondary system assumes the primary role and takes ownership of the VIP address. Note that a manually initiated failover causes a temporary service disruption.
To initiate a manual failover using the GUI, complete the following:
- Log in to the primary system using your username and password.
- Go to the Settings icon > Setup > Failover Configuration tab.
- On the Failover Configuration page, click Become Secondary.
To initiate a manual failover using the NetMRI administrative shell, perform one of the following:
- Log in to the administrative shell on the primary system and enter the
failover role secondarycommand, and then click Enter. - Log in to the administrative shell on the secondary system and enter the
failover role primarycommand, and then click Enter.