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Chapter 8 Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy Using RPR and SSO Performing a Manual Switchover
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:
Be aware of these usage guidelines:
To force a switchover, the redundant supervisor engine must be in a standby hot state. You can verify
the state with the show redundancy command. If the state is not standby hot, the
redundancy force-switchover command does not execute.
Use the redundancy force-switchover command, rather than the reload command, to initiate a
switchover. The redundancy force-switchover command first verifies that the redundant
supervisor engine is in the correct state. If you enter the reload command and the status is not
standby hot, the reload command resets the current supervisor engine only.
After an initial switchover, there might be occasions when you want to make the supervisor engine in
slot 1 of the chassis the active supervisor engine. If the image on supervisor engine 1 is the one you
intend to run on both supervisor engines, it is not necessary to reboot the image on the supervisor engine
in slot 1 to make it redundant. Instead, you can force another switchover. However, if you want a newer
version of the image to run on both supervisor engines, follow the steps under “Performing a Software
Upgrade” on page 13. Use the show module command to see which slot contains the active supervisor
engine, and force another switchover if necessary.
Performing a Software Upgrade
The software upgrade procedure supported by supervisor engine redundancy allows you to reload the
Cisco IOS software image on the redundant supervisor engine, and once complete, reload the active
supervisor engine once.
The software upgrade procedure supported by supervisor engine redundancy allows you to reload the
Cisco IOS software image on the redundant supervisor engine, and once complete, reloads the active
supervisor engine once.
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 does not execute.