How we can test the HA Failover of cisco 9800L

[Manish Manwal]

I am going to configure SSO on two cisco 9800 WLC with RMI+RP. 

how i can test the failover of the wlc? 

reboot the primary controller and then second controller, is this the correct way to test it??

[marce1000]

 - There are a few commands which will give you a pretty good idea on the current health of HA SSO setup :

      test wireless redundancy rping

      show chassis ha-status local
      show chassis ha-status active
      show chassis ha-status standby 

     show redundancy
     show redundancy states
     show chassis rmi 

 M.      

[Leo Laohoo]

Pull the power of the WLC.

[mohammedshahidali88]

WLC#show chassis rmi
WLC#show redundancy

It will show you the redundancy status.

To Test, You have to reload chassis 1 and check the services are moved to secondary and everything works fine and AP's & clients move to secondary WLC. And check redundancy status as well.

Seondary WLC will be showing as an ACTIVE.

To reload the chassis use below command
WLC# redundancy force-switchover

[Haydn Andrews]

For new setups I always follow a test plan involving:

Having clients connected to the wireless and active pings and video streams going to test what client impact is

Test failover using the redundancy force-switchover command

Pull power of the primary WLC

Recover primary

Pull power on secondary

then I do things like

if able to killing upliked switch, or atleast the switch ports 

kill RP port