The APIs described in this section support Automatic Failover — or auto-failover; which can be configured to fail over one or more nodes automatically. No immediate administrator-intervention is required. Specifically, the Cluster Manager autonomously detects and verifies that the nodes are unresponsive, and then initiates the hard failover process. Auto-failover does not fix or identify problems that may have occurred. Once appropriate fixes have been applied to the cluster by the administrator, a rebalance is required. Auto-failover is always hard failover.

An overview of failover, including how auto-failover is configured, is provided in Failover.

The APIs for auto-failover are listed in the following table.