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Enabling and Disabling Auto-Failover

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    Auto-failover is enabled and disabled the POST /settings/autoFailover HTTP method and URI.

    HTTP method and URI

    This is a global setting that applies to all clusters. Authentication is required to change this value.

    POST /settings/autoFailover

    Parameters include:

    • enabled: Value is true or false. Indicates whether Couchbase Server performs auto-failover for the cluster or not.

    • timeout: Positive integer between 30 and 3600. The number of seconds a node must be down before Couchbase Server performs auto-failover on the node. Required if enabled=true; optional when enabled=false.

    Syntax

    Curl request syntax:

    curl -u [admin]:[password] http://[localhost]:8091/settings/autoFailover -d [parameter]

    Example

    Curl request example:

    curl -i -u Administrator:password \
  http://10.5.2.54:8091/settings/autoFailover \
  -d 'enabled=true&timeout=600'

    Raw HTTP request example:

    POST /settings/autoFailover HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.5.2.54:8091
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=
Content-Length: 14
enabled=true&timeout=600

    Response codes

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Couchbase Server
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:26:28 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Cache-Control: no-cache

    The possible errors include:

    400 Bad Request, The value of "enabled" must be true or false.
400 Bad Request, The value of "timeout" must be a positive integer bigger or equal to 30.
401 Unauthorized
This endpoint isn't available yet.