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Manual Failover

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Manual failover can be managed by means of the REST API.

APIs in this Section

The APIs described in this section support Manual Failover. A complete overview is provided in Failover.

The APIs described in this section are listed in the following table.

HTTP Method URI Documented at

POST

/controller/failOver

Performing Hard Failover

POST

/controller/startGracefulFailover

Performing Graceful Failover

POST

/controller/setRecoveryType

Setting Recovery Type