[c-nsp] Forcing all HSRP interfaces to failover

[Peter Rathlev]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 07:04 -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Is there any good way to have IOS abdicate the active status on all of
> its HSRP interfaces?  Of course I could change each of a few thousand
> SVIs, but I'd like a better way.
> 
> The only thing I can come up with is to create an unnumbered loopback
> just to use as a tracking target.  Admin down that interface when you
> want to take down one of the routers for maintenance.
> 
> Has anyone ever done something similar?  Any better ideas?

That's exactly what we do, use an unnumbered Loopback interface for
this. It works fine and is very simple to configure. Don't know of any
smarter way.

Regards,
Peter