To gradually shift passive users off a system ahead of a system outage, failover the session.
The best practice is to use a Time Window to shift users automatically ahead of the outage.
- Use one of the following methods to perform a failover:
Method Steps Business Continuity Manager UI - From the Business Continuity Manager UI, select Sessions.
- Click
, then select Failover.
bcmadmin bcmadmin> help session failover; Command: SESSION FAILOVER { <bcm session id> | <routing name> } Description: Moves the preferred system for the session/routing to the next available system in the ordered list. bcmadmin> SESSION FAILOVER <bcm session id> | <routing name>;You do not need to failover managed sessions, as these sessions automatically connect to the active system.