Instructs an online OpenEdge Replication source database to switch roles with an online target database.

Syntax

dsrutil source-db-name -C transition failover [ -Passphrase ][ -logging [ 1 | 2 ]]

Parameters

source-db-name

The name of the database, currently in the role of the source replica to perform the action on.

-C transition failover

Causes the Replication source to start the process of switching roles.

-Passphrase

The transition of a database from one role to another requires that many different operations be performed, which could include adding after-image extents, backing up the database, or starting up or shutting down the database. The passphrase is required when these operations are performed for a manual startup database that you have enabled with transparent data encryption.

-logging

Turns on transition logging.

1

Produces summary logging.

2

Produces detailed logging.

Database brokers stay online during the transition. The new source or target database(s) are also online after transition, unless the restart-after-transition property is set to 0.

Failover transition reverses the roles of a source and target database. For details of the steps involved in failover transition, see Failback processing using transition failover.