Forcing a Switchover

The force-switchover now command forces an immediate switchover to the standby CPM card.

admin>redundancy
    — force-switchover [now]
admin>redundancy# force-switchover now

A:ALA-12# admin redundancy force-switchover now
A:ALA-12#
Resetting...
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If the active and standby are not synchronized for some reason, users can manually synchronize the standby CPM by rebooting the standby by issuing the admin reboot standby command on the active or the standby CPM.