Scheduled Failvoer

You could probably setup a cron job to issue a failover command.

 

 

Any familiarity with cron or shell scripts?

 

Hi Michael,

 

 

As Chris said, you could script this from crontab:

 

 

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/400/sol8430.html

 

 

Monthly backup

 

 

The following entry will create a UCS backup once a month on the 1st of the month at 3 a.m.:

 

 

00 3 1 * * bigpipe config save /var/ucs/.ucs

 

 

 

You can get the failover status by running 'b fo'. So here's a quick and dirty crontab entry you could use to fail over the active unit once per month:

 

 

00 3 1 * * if [ "`b fo |awk '{print $2}'`" = "active" ]; then `b fo standby`; fi

 

 

Aaron