Brocade FastIron SX Series Chassis Hardware Installation Guide User Manual

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NOTE
Hitless switchover is also supported. An enhancement to the manual switchover feature, a hitless
switchover enables a switchover of the active management module to standby module without
interrupting switched traffic. For details, refer to the FastIron Ethernet Switch Administration Guide.

You can cause the system to switch over to the standby module (and thus make it the active module).
To do so, enter the following command.

device# switch-over-active-role

Once you enter this command, the system will prompt you as follows.

Are you sure? (enter ’y’ or ’n’): y

Running Config data has been changed. Do you want to continue

the switch-over without saving the running config? (enter ’y’ or ’n’): n

Please save the running config and try switch-over again

Syntax: switch-over-active role

Rebooting the active and standby management modules

You can use the boot system or reload commands to reboot the management modules, maintaining
the currently configured active management module (the management module to which the set-active-
mgmt
command applies).

For example, to reboot the active and standby management modules from the primary IronWare image
in the management module’s flash memory, enter the following command at the Privileged EXEC level.

device# boot system flash primary

Syntax: boot system { bootup | flash primary | flash secondary | slot | tftp ip-address filename [
fiber-port ]

The flash primary keyword specifies the primary IronWare image in the management module’s flash
memory, while the flash secondary keyword specifies the secondary IronWare image in the flash
memory.

The tftp keyword directs the switch to boot from an IronWare image on a TFTP server located at ip-
address
with the specified filename.

NOTE
To reboot the device from a TFTP server through a fiber connection, use the CLI command boot
system tftp
ip-address filename fiber-port.

For example, to reboot the active and standby management modules, enter the following command at
the Privileged EXEC level.

device# reload

Syntax: reload

Rebooting the active and standby management modules

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