Failover to Secondary

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Alation only supports manual failover from Primary to Secondary.

Important

The failover command is non-reversible.

Considerations

Consider the following information before performing the failover:

  • Keys and cluster_hosts are preserved.

  • After the failover command is issued on the Secondary, it places itself in standalone mode.

  • If you try to rebuild the cluster, it will result in the target host being attached as a Secondary.

  • A Search index will take several hours to rebuild after a failover.

  • If you intend to re-use the old Primary server as Secondary, all data will be lost.

  • Disable scheduled queries on Secondary before failover.

Running Failover to Secondary

To failover from Primary to Secondary:

From the Secondary run:

sudo /etc/init.d/alation shell
alation_action cluster_failover