Manually Switching Routing Engine Mastership

To manually switch the Routing Engine mastership, use one of the following commands:

• On the backup Routing Engine, request that the backup Routing Engine take mastership by issuing the request chassis routing-engine master acquire command.
• On the master Routing Engine, request that the backup Routing Engine take mastership by using the request chassis routing-engine master release command.
• On either Routing Engine, switch mastership by issuing the request chassis routing-engine master switch command.