service.demote

The Synapse service.demote tool can be used to automatically select a new leader and demote this service.

Syntax

service.demote is executed using python -m synapse.tools.service.demote. The command usage is as follows:

python -m synapse.tools.service.demote -h

usage: synapse.tools.service.demote [-h] [--url URL] [--timeout TIMEOUT]

Automatically select a new leader and demote this service.

Example:
    python -m synapse.tools.service.demote

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --url URL          The telepath URL of the Synapse service.
  --timeout TIMEOUT  The timeout to use awaiting network connections.

Note

This tool was previously run using synapse.tools.demote. It can still be run with that name.