Forcible Active/Standby Switchover

In addition to the active/standby switchover triggered by fault events, you can run the hrp switch command to forcibly perform the active/standby switchover. The forcible active/standby switchover method is used to check whether the link of the standby device is normal during device maintenance. It is not recommended to use this method in other cases.

When the hot standby status of two FWs is normal, the VGMP groups have the same priority. After the hrp switch standby command is run, the priority of the VGMP group on the device decreases by 1. After the hrp switch active command is run, the priority of the VGMP group on the device increases by 1. If the VGMP group priorities of the FWs at both ends are different, an active/standby switchover is triggered.

Therefore, you can perform a forcible active/standby switchover by using either of the following methods:

• Run the hrp switch standby command in the system view of the active device.

  HRP_M<sysname> system-view
  HRP_M[sysname] hrp switch standby

  In this case, the priority of the VGMP group on the active device decreases by 1, which is lower than the priority of the VGMP group on the standby device. As a result, an active/standby switchover is triggered.

• Run the hrp switch active command in the system view of the standby device.

  HRP_S<sysname> system-view
  HRP_S[sysname] hrp switch active

  In this case, the priority of the VGMP group on the standby device increases by 1, which is higher than the priority of the VGMP group on the active device. As a result, an active/standby switchover is triggered.

When the status of the two devices is abnormal, the forcible active/standby switchover is invalid. For example, if an interface on the active device is Down, the device is switched to standby. In this case, you cannot switch the device to active by running the hrp switch active command.

After you run the hrp switch active or hrp switch standby command to manually switch the active/standby state of a device, run the undo hrp switch command to restore the device to the normal state as soon as possible.

After the hrp switch command is run, run the display hrp state verbose command to view the Running priority field to check the change of the priority of the VGMP group.