Changing a slave to become the master

In some cases maybe you want to change a slave to become the master.

Step-by-step guide

1. On the master: Go to Distributed Monitoring -> Edit the slave connection and deselect 'Disable configuration via WATO on this site' (if selected)
   1. Now your slave has an own WATO
2. Now you need to move all hosts from master to slave
   1. On the master: Go to WATO -> Hosts and edit all hosts. You need to select at 'Monitored on Site' your slave. Please save and activate the changes.
   2. You need to do a rediscovery for all hosts
   3. Now your slave is monitoring all your hosts
3. On the master: Go to Distributed Monitoring and remove the slave Connection
4. On the slave: Go to Distributed Monitoring and add create a connection for the master
   1. Please Note: If you enable 'configuration push' the slave will override the master. Please make sure that you have all rules/settings already on your slave
5. After activating all changes the master is not monitoring any host. Please repeat step 2 if you want to monitor the host via master.
6. Now you've successfully promoting slave to master

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