How to trigger failover for Azure Cache for Redis using CLI

Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim) 40 Microsoft Vendor

I have setup the two Azure Cache for Redis, one in the primary region and another in paired region. After that I have setup the Geo replication between this two servers using replication link. so now I want to trigger a manual failover on this so how we can do that using the az cli or REST API? Using portal it's a straight forward way but I didn't found anything in the doc related to az cli or REST API

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Oury Ba-MSFT 16,391 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-02-20T19:43:59.7666667+00:00

Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim) Azure Cache for Redis provides several ways to trigger a manual failover between paired regions, even if the portal isn’t your preferred method. You need to execute the server-link create command with the cache names reversed like this: az redis server-link create --name cache2 --resource-group testResourceGroup --server-to-link cache1 --replication-role Secondary

cache2 is old secondary or new primary
cache1 is old primary or new secondary Regards, Oury
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Oury Ba-MSFT 16,391 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-02-21T18:28:57.9066667+00:00

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Deepanshu katara 4,980 Reputation points

2024-02-16T13:31:59.6633333+00:00

Hi , please find below answer Using Azure CLI: Please find document https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/redis?view=azure-cli-latest#az-redis-force-reboot Using REST API: Please check below link-->

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/redis/redis?view=rest-redis-2023-08-01

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Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim) 40 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-02-16T14:02:29+00:00

Thanks for the quick response but I am not able to see this options in mentioned doc.

And also when I am trying to do this facing a below error:
Also can you please check the CURL command which you pasted looks like it's only have this

Deepanshu katara 4,980 Reputation points

2024-02-16T14:11:53.3+00:00

Hi , I have updated previous answer , please check, Thanks!, please refer doc

Deepanshu katara 4,980 Reputation points

2024-02-16T14:25:40.0133333+00:00

Hi , basically , please follow these two link, one for Az CLI and other for Rest Api https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/redis?view=azure-cli-latest#az-redis-force-reboot and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/redis/redis?view=rest-redis-2023-08-01

Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim) 40 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-02-16T15:09:02.5833333+00:00

Can you please check the docs which you have shared? that doesn't provide any information related to trigger Manual failover, it's just showing how we can do the force reboot

Deepanshu katara 4,980 Reputation points

2024-02-16T15:21:40.6933333+00:00

Yes by using this you can reboot the primary node and by default it will move to secondary and this is how you can do check failover using Az cli

Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim) 40 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-02-16T16:09:19.0633333+00:00

Okay, got your point. Thanks for the clarification.

Deepanshu katara 4,980 Reputation points

2024-02-19T06:56:23.26+00:00

@maulin , Following up to see if the provided answer was helpful. If this answers your query, do click Accept Answer and Yes for was this answer helpful. And, if you have any further query do let us know.

Maulin Shah (Crest Data Systems Private Lim) 40 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-02-20T09:18:41.7166667+00:00

Hey, I have tried this but it's not working as expected.
When I am doing force-reboot it trigger the reboot in next 2 minutes but when I am checking server-link details, it's not updating the primary server as expected. so is there any explicit step that we need to do?
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