https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-check-if-my-Secondary-Name-Node-is-synced-up-with-the/m-p/195320#M157379 <P><EM>@<A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/14345/sreekuppa.html">Sree Kupp</A></EM></P><P><EM>I see you are attempting something that is taken care of by real HA setup with <STRONG>active </STRONG>and <STRONG>standby namenode</STRONG>, you can use below command to force failover.</EM></P><PRE>$ hdfs haadmin -failover</PRE><P><EM>Let me know whether that helps</EM></P> Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:22:32 GMT Shelton 2017-09-30T18:22:32Z