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Chapter 6 Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy Using RPR and SSO
Performing a Manual Switchover
Note The auto-sync command controls the synchronization of the config-reg, bootvar, and startup/private
configuration files only. The calendar and VLAN database files are always synchronized when they
change. In SSO mode, the running-config is always synchronized.
This example shows how to reenable the default automatic synchronization feature using the auto-sync
standard command to synchronize the startup-config and config-register configuration of the active
supervisor engine with the redundant supervisor engine. Updates for the boot variables are automatic
and cannot be disabled.
Switch(config)# redundancy
Switch(config-red)# main-cpu
Switch(config-r-mc)# auto-sync standard
Switch(config-r-mc)# end
Switch# copy running-config startup-config
Note To manually synchronize individual elements of the standard auto-sync configuration, disable the default
automatic synchronization feature.
This example shows how to disable default automatic synchronization and allow only automatic
synchronization of the config-registers of the active supervisor engine to the redundant supervisor
engine, while disallowing synchronization of the startup configuration:
Switch(config)# redundancy
Switch(config-red)# main-cpu
Switch(config-r-mc)# no auto-sync standard
Switch(config-r-mc)# auto-sync config-register
Switch(config-r-mc)# end
Performing a Manual Switchover
This section describes how to perform a manual switchover (from the active supervisor engine to the
redundant supervisor engine) for test purposes. We recommend that you perform a manual switchover
prior to deploying SSO in your production environment.
Note This discussion assumes that SSO has been configured as the redundant mode.
To perform a manual switchover, perform this task on the active supervisor engine:
Command Purpose
Step 1
Switch# show redundancy
Verifies that the peer state is in the STANDBY HOT
state.
See the example of the show redundancy states
command on page 6-10.
Step 2
Switch# redundancy force-switchover
Launches switchover from the active supervisor engine
to the redundant supervisor engine.
If the state of the redundant supervisor engine is not
standby hot, this command will not execute.