Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series User Manual

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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and Cisco 7600 Series Router Firewall Services Module Configuration Guide
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Chapter 15 Using Failover
Forcing Failover
Step 4 If the test was not successful, enter the show failover command to check the failover status.
Step 5 When you are finished, you can leave the secondary module as active or force the primary module to be
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:
• 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
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 “Forcing Failover”
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:
• Failover System Messages, page 15-24
• SNMP, page 15-24
• Debug Messages, page 15-24

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	Catalyst 6500 Series
Category	Switch
Language	English