DELL PC7024 User Manual

System Management Commands

The hostname may include any printable characters except a double quote or 

question mark. Enclose the string in double quotes to include spaces within 

the name. The surrounding quotes are not used as part of the name. The CLI 

does not filter illegal characters and may truncate entries at the first illegal 

character or reject the entry entirely.

The following example specifies the switch host name.

console(config)# hostname Dell

To manually force a failover from the management unit to the backup unit in 

a stack, use the initiate failover command in Stack Configuration mode. 

This command has no user guidelines.

There is no default configuration.

Stack Configuration mode

This command forces a warm restart of the stack. The backup unit takes over 

as the new management unit without clearing the hardware state on any of 

the stack members. The original management unit reboots. If the system is 

not ready for a warm restart, for example because no backup unit has been 

elected or one or more members of the stack do not support nonstop 

forwarding, the command fails with a warning message. 

console(config-stack)#initiate failover ?

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