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100 Brocade FastIron SX Series Chassis Hardware Installation Guide

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Managing management module redundancy

Figure 46 shows how the files are synchronized between the active module and the standby

module.

FIGURE 46 Active and standby management module file synchronization

Manually switching over to the

standby management module

This section describes how to manually switch the role of active management module from the

currently active module to the standby module.

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 Configuration 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.

Active Management Module

Synchronized at startup

or switchover

Also can be immediately

synchronized using the CLI

Startup-config also

automatically updated

with write memory

command

Standby Management Module

Startup-config file

Flash code

Boot code

Flash code

Startup-config file