Description

How to perform an HA Failover on NorthStar platform and display priorities on Cluster member nodes.

Solution

To perform a failover:

Go to the NorthStar Controller CLI shell, and type:

supervisorctl restart infra:ha_agent

To view the cluster members and the status, enter /opt/northstar/utils/net_setup.py

Hit option E, to view the HA Setting
Hit option K to check the cluster status

You can also perform a supervisorctl status and view which node has all the processes running.  This would be the primary

To view each member and the priorities you can just run net_setup.py and select:
Hit option:  E. HA settings

Scroll up and you can see the members and their priorities. Priorities determine who will be the Active node, and Standby.

Setting the priority membership of the Northstar members: is initially done at startup,  but can be changed with /opt/northstar/utils/net_setup.py
 

Modification History

2024-03-06 : Article Created
2024-04-17: Minor grammatical corrections