WLC HA AP SSO switchover without reboot

[saleem pc]

We are testing the WLC 8.3 HA AP SSO  switch over with command redundancy force-switchover . Failover happening from Primary to secondary active. although it reboots the primary !. is it expected ?. we are looking for fail over without rebooting the server

[Sandeep Choudhary]

Yes its normal...

once you use  redundancy force-switchover command on the Active WLC. This command will trigger a manual switchover where the Active WLC will reboot and the Standby WLC will take over the network.

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[saleem pc]

is there any method to switch over to standby without reboot of the active one ?. 

[marce1000]

 - I don't think so , the question is less-relevant ; if you want a real failover; the momentariliy-post-condition of the 'previous partner' is less relevant.

M.

[Sandeep Choudhary]

shutdown the LAN port where active WLC is connected.!!!! (Just an idea)

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[marce1000]

 - Personally I , wouldn't recommend such actions, because the HA going over other vlan, or network  ; you may end up in split-brain conditions.

M.

[marce1000 · Accepted solution]

 - Yeah , I always found this one confusing too as it 'only' reboots the active WLC perhaps it could have been given some better command-name.

M.