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Forcing the secondary node to stay secondary

September 14, 2021

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In an HA setup, the secondary node can be forced to stay secondary regardless of the state of the primary node.

For example, suppose the primary node needs to be upgraded and the process will take a few seconds. During the upgrade, the primary node may go down for a few seconds, but you do not want the secondary node to take over; you want it to remain the secondary node even if it detects a failure in the primary node.

When you force the secondary node to stay secondary, it will remain secondary even if the primary node goes down. Also, when you force the status of a node in an HA pair to stay secondary, it does not participate in HA state machine transitions. The status of the node is displayed as STAYSECONDARY.

Forcing the node to stay secondary works on both standalone and secondary nodes. On a standalone node, you must use this option before you can add a node to create an HA pair. When you add the new node, the existing node stops processing traffic and becomes the secondary node. The new node becomes the primary node.

Note:

When you force a system to remain secondary, the forcing process is not propagated or synchronized. It affects only the node on which you run the command.

To force the secondary node to stay secondary by using the command line interface

At the command prompt, type:

set ha node -hastatus STAYSECONDARY

To force the secondary node to stay secondary by using the GUI

Navigate to System > High Availability, on the Nodes tab, open the local node, and select STAY SECONDARY.

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Forcing the secondary node to stay secondary

September 14, 2021

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September 14, 2021

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Forcing the secondary node to stay secondary

To force the secondary node to stay secondary by using the command line interface

To force the secondary node to stay secondary by using the GUI

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