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# admin_switchover

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.admin_switchover"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">admin\_switchover</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">processes</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">destinations</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L15637"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Manually switch over one or more processes to another host. Individual ranks or entire hosts may be moved to another host.</p>

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        <p className="admonition-title">Note</p>
        <p>This method should be used for on-premise deployments only.</p>
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      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">processes (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Indicates the process identifier to switch over to another host. Options are ‘hostN’ and ‘rankN’ where ‘N’ corresponds to the number associated with a host or rank in the <a className="reference external" href="/content/config/#config-main-network">Network</a> section of the gpudb.conf file; e.g., ‘host\[N].address’ or ‘rank\[N].host’. If ‘hostN’ is provided, all processes on that host will be moved to another host. Each entry in this array will be switched over to the corresponding host entry at the same index in input parameter <span className="em">destinations</span>. The user can provide a single element (which will be automatically promoted to a list internally) or a list.</p>
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              <p>Indicates to which host to switch over each corresponding process given in input parameter <span className="em">processes</span>. Each index must be specified as ‘hostN’ where ‘N’ corresponds to the number associated with a host or rank in the <a className="reference external" href="/content/config/#config-main-network">Network</a> section of the gpudb.conf file; e.g., ‘host\[N].address’. Each entry in this array will receive the corresponding process entry at the same index in input parameter <span className="em">processes</span>. The user can provide a single element (which will be automatically promoted to a list internally) or a list.</p>
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              <p>Optional parameters. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>dry\_run</strong> – If set to <span className="em">true</span>, only validation checks will be performed. Nothing is switched over. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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                      <p>false</p>
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                  <p>The default value is ‘false’.</p>
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              <p>The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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