The forcefailover option enables the client to immediately fail over to the secondary server.
You can use the forcefailover option to immediately connect to the secondary server, even if the primary server is still online. For example, you can use this option to verify that the backup-archive client is failing over to the expected secondary server.
Do not edit this option during normal operations.
This option is valid for all clients.
Place this option in the client-system options file (dsm.sys).
Place this option in the client options file (dsm.opt).