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On 6/19/24 09:03, Yongye Serkfem wrote:
> Hello Engineers,
> I am facing an issue with the manual failover of the standby to the 
> master role. I was able to promote the standby and got it out of 
> recovery mode. How do I direct applications to point to the standby 
> which has assumed the role of the current master, and what should I do 
> after completing maintenance on the previous master to assume its 
> original role as master?
> I would appreciate any input, and thank you for your time.
>
> Yongye Serkfem
You need to show your set up (failover script, etc) but usually the 
standby get the ip address of the now-dead master and the apps are none 
the wiser.