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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.2

# Triggering on failed-over

A failed-over trigger can only be fired when a standby server becomes the new target server The immediately upstream server for replica servers, edge servers, standby servers, proxies and brokers. See also 'upstream server' and 'central server'. and first starts up during a successful p4 failover command.

Special variables:

- %standbyserverid% expands to the serverID of the standby before failover
- %standbyserverport% expands to the P4PORT of the standby before failover

To define a failed-over trigger, use the p4 triggers command to configure the triggers form with this syntax:

triggerName failed-over failed-over command

The following table describes the fields for a trigger definition:

Field | Meaning
--- | ---
name | The name of the trigger, such as testFailover2
`type` | Must be failed-over
`path` | Must be failed-over
`command` | The trigger for P4 Server to run when the target server restarts after a successful failover. Specify the command in a way that allows P4 Server to locate and run the command. The command is typically a call to a script. The command must be quoted. The command can take any arguments that your trigger can parse, including P4 Server trigger variables.

- Most of the usual trigger variables are not available for this trigger because this fires at server startup before any client connection

- You can have zero, one, or more failed-over triggers. Each failed-over trigger is asynchronous and independent of the others, so if one trigger fails, its failure has no effect on the others.

- See also Triggering on heartbeat (server responsiveness) and Triggering on failed-back.

## Example

In the Triggers: field, your form might have something similar to this:

    testFailover failed-over failed-over "perl '%serverroot%'/test.pl '%serverport%' '%serverid%' '%standbyserverid%' '%standbyserverport%'"
    testFailover2 failed-over failed-over "perl '%serverroot%'/test.pl '%serverport%' '%serverid%' '%standbyserverid%' '%standbyserverport%'"
    testTrigger3 failed-over failed-over "perl '%serverroot%'/test.pl '%serverport%' '%serverid%' '%standbyserverid%' '%standbyserverport%'"

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