8. C300 Redundancy operation 
8.5. Redundancy parameters 
Series 8 C300 Controller User's Guide 
Honeywell 
 
 
 
 
 
Secondary module recovery from dual-FTE-cable disconnect. 
 
Secondary module powerup. 
 
Secondary module reboot into Backup state following firmware update. 
 
Secondary module reboot into Backup state following recovery from the Fail state. 
 
Auto synchronization retries 
Once the Auto Sync State is enabled, loss of synchronization is automatically followed by 
an automatic attempt to re-synchronize the redundant controller pair.  However, after a 
maximum of 3 initial-sync failures, the Auto Sync State is disabled with an inhibit sync 
reason of Initial Sync Fail. 
 
Inhibit Sync Reason - RDNINHIBITSYNC 
Whenever the C300 is not in the synchronized/standby states and initial-sync is not in 
progress, the RDNINHIBITSYNC parameter is set to the inhibit sync reason.  Reasons 
for inhibiting initial-sync include the following: 
 
Initial sync is not allowed until after the C300 has completed system
 
startup. This is a transient inhibit sync reason that is usually not
 
seen. 
Initial sync is inhibited while the Auto Sync State is set to disabled.
 
This is a persistent inhibit sync reason that is canceled through the
 
Enable Sync command. 
Initial-sync cannot commence until the previous abort sync
 
operation has been completed.  This is a transient inhibit sync
 
reason that is usually not seen. 
There is a guaranteed 20 second delay in between initial-sync
 
attempts.  More specifically, for 20 seconds after a compatible
 
partner is identified, initial-sync is inhibited with this transient
 
reason. 
After 3 failed attempts to perform initial-sync, the Auto Sync State is
 
automatically set to disabled and the inhibit sync reason is set to
 
this persistent value.  Refer to the redundancy history for the
 
reasons why initial-sync failed, and issue the Enable Sync
 
command to attempt initial-sync again. 
Redundancy
 
Configuration State 
Initial-sync is not allowed when explicitly configured as non-
 
redundant.  This persistent inhibit sync reason can only be canceled
 
by reconfiguring the non-redundant C300 FB as redundant.