Forced switch can be performed during maintenance operation. Perform the following steps to execute a forced switch. To perform switchover from Master server to Slave server, the Slave server must be available and the Master Slave Sync State should be shown as In_SYNC for Slave server:
Go to Administration and click Manage Servers option. Manage Servers page is displayed. The server IPs for Application and Database servers of both Master and Slave are displayed.
Select the Slave application server required and click (Promote as Main). A Hotstandby action message Do you want to switch over to Server:<IP address>? is displayed.
Click OK. The switchover to Server is successful.
The client application has to be launched again to access TJ5500.
TJ5500 will not allow the user to perform the forced switch operation on the Master.
(Promote as Main). A Hotstandby action message Do you want to switch over to Server:<IP address>? is displayed.