Forcing Failover; Disabling Failover; Monitoring Failover - Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Configuration Manual

Chapter 15 Using Failover
If the test was not successful, enter the show failover command to check the failover status.
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When you are finished, you can leave the secondary module as active or force the primary module to be
Step 5
active again by entering the following command:
primary(config)# failover active

Forcing Failover

To force the standby module to become active, enter one of the following commands:
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Disabling Failover

When you disable failover, the active and standby state of each module is maintained until you restart.
For example, the standby module remains in standby mode so that both modules do not start passing
traffic. To make the standby module active (even with failover disabled), see the
section above.
To disable failover, enter the following command:
primary(config)# no failover
This command is not replicated to the standby module so you must disable failover of the standby
module separately.
To verify that failover is off, enter the show failover command:
primary(config)# show failover
Failover Off
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Monitoring Failover

When a failover occurs, both FWSMs send out system messages. This section includes the following
topics:
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Enter this command on the active module to failover to the standby module:
primary(config)# no failover active
Enter this command on the standby module to force it to become active:
secondary(config)# failover active
Failover System Messages, page 15-24
SNMP, page 15-24
Debug Messages, page 15-24
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