HSRP - device intended to be active has failed?

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Hey ITProTV, I ran into this CCNA 200-105 question and was a bit confused by the answer marked correct. "the switch intended to be the active switch has failed and this switch has taken over"..

Doesn't the highlighted portion of the output indicate that the switch intended to be the primary is online and actively participating in HSRP? I get that preempt is on and the switch with the higher priority should be taking over, that is not right.. However, the switch that isn't taking over appears to be up and functioning....?

Regards,
Adam Tyler

@Adam-Tyler,

Standby means that IP address is not active but ready on standby to take over. It is participating in HSRP but as the router (switch) that is waiting to take over.

The column under the heading Active shows the devices that the data is passing through using HSRP.

Yep, I get all that. Just wondering why the practice question would say that the "switch intended to be the active switch has failed". From the output it doesn't appear to be failed, just not active.. Which I get is a problem, because preempt is enabled and the "standby" switch should be active.

-Adam

@Adam-Tyler,
it's the wording of the question One core switch was left with the default priority, the other was given a lower priority to make it the standby switch.

The core switch with the default priority would have remained active as long as it was up.. But once it failed, the other core switch with the lower priority in standby was made active. It would never have become active if the other didn't fail.