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Michel_van_der_'s avatar
Michel_van_der_
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Dec 12, 2003

failover?

Am I allowed to set the failover status to 'active' on a 'standby' box. Or   can only the active unit mark itself standby?
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Dec 12, 2003
The BIG-IP kernel failover implementation does not allow flipping the standby unit to active. The active unit must be set to standby to force a failover.

 

 

-Joe