Router Hardware Management Guide for Cisco 8000 Series Routers, Cisco IOS XR Release

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Router Hardware Management Guide for Cisco 8000 Series Routers, Cisco IOS XR Release

Determine the active RP in a redundant pair

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Describes how to identify the active route processor in a redundant pair using the green Active LED on the card faceplate.


During system startup, one RP in each redundant pair becomes the active RP. You can identify the active RP in these ways:

  • The active RP is identifiable by the green Active LED on the faceplate of the card. When the Active LED turns on, it indicates that the RP is active. When the Active LED turns off, it indicates that the RP is in standby.

  • The slot of the active RP is indicated in the CLI prompt. For example:

    Router#

    In this example, the prompt indicates that you are communicating with the active RP in slot RP1.

  • Use the showredundancy command in EXEC mode to display a summary of the active and standby RP status. For example:

    Router# show redundancy
    
      This node (0/RP0/CPU0) is in ACTIVE role
      Partner node (0/RP1/CPU0) is in STANDBY role
      Standby node in 0/RP1/CPU0 is ready
    
      Reload and boot info
      ----------------------
      RP reloaded Fri Apr  9 03:44:28 2004: 16 hours, 51 minutes ago
      This node booted Fri Apr  9 06:19:05 2004: 14 hours, 16 minutes ago
      Last switch-over Fri Apr  9 06:53:18 2004: 13 hours, 42 minutes ago
      Standby node boot Fri Apr  9 06:54:25 2004: 13 hours, 41 minutes ago
      Standby node last not ready Fri Apr  9 20:35:23 2004: 0 minutes ago
      Standby node last ready Fri Apr  9 20:35:23 2004: 0 minutes ago
      There have been 2 switch-overs since reload