diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Health/CentralFailoverControl.razor b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Health/CentralFailoverControl.razor
index fbe96dd0..9bb751ff 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Health/CentralFailoverControl.razor
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Health/CentralFailoverControl.razor
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
         <button class="btn btn-outline-warning btn-sm"
                 disabled="@(!HasPeer || _busy)"
                 title="@(HasPeer
-                          ? "Gracefully restart the active node; the standby takes over."
+                          ? (IsSite
+                              ? $"Gracefully restart site {SiteId}'s active node; its standby takes over."
+                              : "Gracefully restart the active node; the standby takes over.")
                           : "No standby available — failing over a lone node would be an outage, not a failover.")"
                 @onclick="TriggerAsync">
             @(_busy ? "Failing over…" : "Trigger failover")
@@ -34,6 +36,17 @@
     [Parameter]
     public int OnlineCentralNodeCount { get; set; }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// When set, this control fails over the named SITE pair instead of the central pair.
+    /// Sites are separate Akka clusters reached over the command/control relay, so the site
+    /// path cannot disturb the admin's own session — which is why the confirmation text
+    /// differs. <c>null</c> (the default) means the central pair.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Parameter]
+    public string? SiteId { get; set; }
+
+    private bool IsSite => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(SiteId);
+
     [CascadingParameter]
     private Task<AuthenticationState>? AuthState { get; set; }
 
@@ -45,16 +58,26 @@
 
     private async Task TriggerAsync()
     {
-        // The admin is almost certainly connected THROUGH the node about to restart (Traefik
-        // routes to the active node), so the dialog has to set that expectation or a working
-        // failover reads as a crash they just caused.
-        var confirmed = await Dialog.ConfirmAsync(
-            "Trigger central failover?",
-            "The active central node will leave the cluster and restart; the standby takes over "
-            + "and becomes active. Cluster singletons hand over gracefully, but in-flight work on "
-            + "the active node is interrupted. This page is served by the active node, so it will "
-            + "briefly disconnect and reconnect against the new active node.",
-            danger: true);
+        // Central: the admin is almost certainly connected THROUGH the node about to restart
+        // (Traefik routes to the active node), so the dialog must set that expectation or a
+        // working failover reads as a crash they caused.
+        // Site: a different cluster entirely — this page is unaffected, and claiming otherwise
+        // would train operators to ignore the warning that does matter.
+        var confirmed = IsSite
+            ? await Dialog.ConfirmAsync(
+                $"Trigger failover for site {SiteId}?",
+                $"The active node of site {SiteId} will leave its cluster and restart; the site's "
+                + "standby takes over and its Deployment Manager singleton hands over gracefully. "
+                + "In-flight work on that site node is interrupted, and the site is briefly "
+                + "unavailable while the handover completes.",
+                danger: true)
+            : await Dialog.ConfirmAsync(
+                "Trigger central failover?",
+                "The active central node will leave the cluster and restart; the standby takes over "
+                + "and becomes active. Cluster singletons hand over gracefully, but in-flight work on "
+                + "the active node is interrupted. This page is served by the active node, so it will "
+                + "briefly disconnect and reconnect against the new active node.",
+                danger: true);
 
         if (!confirmed)
         {
@@ -68,17 +91,35 @@
         try
         {
             var actor = await ResolveActorAsync();
-            var target = await Failover.FailOverCentralAsync(actor);
 
-            if (target is null)
+            if (IsSite)
             {
-                // The server-side peer guard refused. Never report a failover that did not happen.
-                _failed = true;
-                _message = "Refused: no standby available to take over.";
+                var outcome = await Failover.FailOverSiteAsync(SiteId!, actor);
+                if (outcome.Accepted)
+                {
+                    _message = $"Failover triggered — {outcome.TargetAddress} is leaving the site cluster.";
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    // Carry the site's own words through: a peer-guard refusal and an
+                    // unreachable site are different situations for the operator.
+                    _failed = true;
+                    _message = outcome.ErrorMessage ?? "Refused by the site.";
+                }
             }
             else
             {
-                _message = $"Failover triggered — {target} is leaving the cluster.";
+                var target = await Failover.FailOverCentralAsync(actor);
+                if (target is null)
+                {
+                    // The server-side peer guard refused. Never report a failover that did not happen.
+                    _failed = true;
+                    _message = "Refused: no standby available to take over.";
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    _message = $"Failover triggered — {target} is leaving the cluster.";
+                }
             }
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Monitoring/Health.razor b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Monitoring/Health.razor
index 2ae273cd..9a9fe94e 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Monitoring/Health.razor
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Monitoring/Health.razor
@@ -219,12 +219,11 @@
                         }
                     </div>
                     <div class="d-flex align-items-center gap-3">
-                        @if (isCentral)
-                        {
-                            @* Admin-only; the control gates itself, and disables when the
-                               central pair has no online standby to take over. *@
-                            <CentralFailoverControl OnlineCentralNodeCount="@OnlineNodeCount(state)" />
-                        }
+                        @* Admin-only; the control gates itself, and disables when the pair has
+                           no online standby to take over. Central acts on the local cluster;
+                           a site is asked over the command/control relay. *@
+                        <CentralFailoverControl OnlineCentralNodeCount="@OnlineNodeCount(state)"
+                                                SiteId="@(isCentral ? null : siteId)" />
                         <small class="text-muted">
                             Last report: <TimestampDisplay Value="@state.LastReportReceivedAt" Format="HH:mm:ss" NullText="awaiting first report" />
                             | Last heartbeat: <TimestampDisplay Value="@state.LastHeartbeatAt" Format="HH:mm:ss" />
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Services/IManualFailoverService.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Services/IManualFailoverService.cs
index 16de3ffc..b21328f0 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Services/IManualFailoverService.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Services/IManualFailoverService.cs
@@ -21,4 +21,28 @@ public interface IManualFailoverService
     /// <returns>The address acted on, or <c>null</c> when there is no peer to fail over to
     /// (failing over a lone node would be an outage, not a failover).</returns>
     Task<string?> FailOverCentralAsync(string actor);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Asks a SITE to gracefully fail over its own two-node pair. Central and each site are
+    /// separate Akka clusters, so this is a request relayed over the command/control channel —
+    /// the site performs the Leave itself and reports the outcome. Unlike central failover,
+    /// this does NOT disturb the caller's own UI session.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="siteId">The site whose pair should fail over.</param>
+    /// <param name="actor">Authenticated user name, recorded on the audit row.</param>
+    /// <returns>The site's outcome — accepted with a target, or refused with a reason.</returns>
+    Task<SiteFailoverOutcome> FailOverSiteAsync(string siteId, string actor);
 }
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Outcome of a site-pair failover request, in UI terms. Deliberately distinct from the wire
+/// ack so CentralUI stays free of the Akka message contract.
+/// </summary>
+/// <param name="Accepted"><c>true</c> when the site issued the graceful Leave.</param>
+/// <param name="TargetAddress">Address of the leaving site node; <c>null</c> when refused.</param>
+/// <param name="ErrorMessage">
+/// Why the request was refused or failed. A refusal (peer guard, misroute) is a definitive
+/// answer FROM the site; an unreachable site surfaces here as a timeout message. Both are
+/// reported to the operator rather than being flattened into a generic failure.
+/// </param>
+public sealed record SiteFailoverOutcome(bool Accepted, string? TargetAddress, string? ErrorMessage);
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Messages/RemoteQuery/SiteFailoverRelayMessages.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Messages/RemoteQuery/SiteFailoverRelayMessages.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0aaf9eda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Messages/RemoteQuery/SiteFailoverRelayMessages.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.RemoteQuery;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Central → site relay command: gracefully fail over the owning site's two-node cluster.
+/// Sent over the command/control channel when an Administrator clicks "Trigger failover" on a
+/// site card in the Central UI Health dashboard.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// <para>
+/// Central and each site are SEPARATE Akka clusters, so central cannot act on a site's
+/// membership directly — it can only ask. The site's own <c>SiteCommunicationActor</c> performs
+/// the <c>Cluster.Leave</c> against its site-specific <c>site-{SiteId}</c> role, which is the
+/// role its singletons (the Deployment Manager) are scoped to.
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// Either site node may receive this: <c>SiteCommunicationActor</c> is registered per node
+/// (not as a singleton), and ClusterClient contact rotation reaches whichever answers. That is
+/// fine — <c>Cluster.Leave(address)</c> is valid from any member, and the target is resolved
+/// from cluster state rather than from who received the message.
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// <b>Rolling upgrade:</b> a site running a binary older than this contract has no handler for
+/// this message; it becomes an unhandled message / dead letter and central's Ask times out.
+/// The timeout is reported to the operator as "site did not respond", which is the correct
+/// user-facing outcome — an old site genuinely cannot honour the request. Message evolution
+/// stays additive-only.
+/// </para>
+/// </remarks>
+/// <param name="CorrelationId">Correlation id echoed on the ack.</param>
+/// <param name="SiteId">The site whose pair should fail over. Carried explicitly so a
+/// misrouted command is detectable at the site rather than silently acted on.</param>
+public sealed record TriggerSiteFailover(
+    string CorrelationId,
+    string SiteId);
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Site → central ack for a <see cref="TriggerSiteFailover"/> relay command.
+/// </summary>
+/// <param name="CorrelationId">Correlation id of the originating relay command.</param>
+/// <param name="Accepted">
+/// <c>true</c> when the site resolved a target and issued the graceful Leave.
+/// <c>false</c> is a definitive refusal from the site — most often the peer guard (fewer than
+/// two Up members in the site role, so a failover would be an outage) or a site-id mismatch.
+/// A <c>false</c> ack is NOT a transport failure and must be distinguished from an
+/// unreachable-site timeout.
+/// </param>
+/// <param name="TargetAddress">Address of the node that is leaving; <c>null</c> when refused.</param>
+/// <param name="ErrorMessage">Reason for a refusal, or a fault message; <c>null</c> on success.</param>
+public sealed record SiteFailoverAck(
+    string CorrelationId,
+    bool Accepted,
+    string? TargetAddress,
+    string? ErrorMessage);
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/Actors/SiteCommunicationActor.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/Actors/SiteCommunicationActor.cs
index 4667b2ec..8199b80d 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/Actors/SiteCommunicationActor.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/Actors/SiteCommunicationActor.cs
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ public class SiteCommunicationActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     /// do not need a real cluster.
     /// </summary>
     private readonly Func<bool> _isActiveCheck;
+    private readonly Func<string, string?> _failOverRole;
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Reference to the local Deployment Manager singleton proxy.
@@ -76,12 +77,14 @@ public class SiteCommunicationActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         string siteId,
         CommunicationOptions options,
         IActorRef deploymentManagerProxy,
-        Func<bool>? isActiveCheck = null)
+        Func<bool>? isActiveCheck = null,
+        Func<string, string?>? failOverRole = null)
     {
         _siteId = siteId;
         _options = options;
         _deploymentManagerProxy = deploymentManagerProxy;
         _isActiveCheck = isActiveCheck ?? DefaultIsActiveCheck;
+        _failOverRole = failOverRole ?? DefaultFailOverRole;
 
         // Registration
         Receive<RegisterCentralClient>(msg =>
@@ -263,6 +266,14 @@ public class SiteCommunicationActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
             }
         });
 
+        // Central→site manual failover relay. Central and the site are separate clusters,
+        // so central can only ask — this node performs the graceful Leave locally, scoped to
+        // the SITE-SPECIFIC role, because that is what site singletons (the Deployment
+        // Manager) are placed on. Either node may receive this (the actor is per-node, not a
+        // singleton, and contact rotation picks whichever answers); the target is resolved
+        // from cluster state, not from who received the message.
+        Receive<TriggerSiteFailover>(HandleTriggerSiteFailover);
+
         // Notification Outbox: forward a buffered notification submitted by the site
         // Store-and-Forward Engine to the central cluster. The original Sender (the
         // S&F forwarder's Ask) is forwarded as the ClusterClient.Send sender so the
@@ -517,6 +528,69 @@ public class SiteCommunicationActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     private bool DefaultIsActiveCheck() =>
         ClusterState.ActiveNodeEvaluator.SelfIsOldestUp(Cluster.Get(Context.System));
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Handles a central-initiated site failover. Refuses a command addressed to a different
+    /// site (a misroute must never silently fail over a site the operator did not select) and
+    /// refuses when the site pair has no peer to take over. The ack is sent BEFORE the Leave
+    /// takes effect on the wire, so it still reaches central even when this node is the one
+    /// leaving.
+    /// </summary>
+    private void HandleTriggerSiteFailover(TriggerSiteFailover msg)
+    {
+        if (!string.Equals(msg.SiteId, _siteId, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+        {
+            _log.Warning(
+                "Refusing TriggerSiteFailover addressed to site {Requested}; this node serves {Actual}",
+                msg.SiteId, _siteId);
+            Sender.Tell(new SiteFailoverAck(
+                msg.CorrelationId, Accepted: false, TargetAddress: null,
+                ErrorMessage: $"Command addressed to site '{msg.SiteId}' but this node serves '{_siteId}'."));
+            return;
+        }
+
+        var role = $"site-{_siteId}";
+        try
+        {
+            var target = _failOverRole(role);
+            if (target is null)
+            {
+                _log.Warning(
+                    "Refusing TriggerSiteFailover for {SiteId}: fewer than 2 Up members in role {Role}, "
+                    + "so there is no standby to take over", _siteId, role);
+                Sender.Tell(new SiteFailoverAck(
+                    msg.CorrelationId, Accepted: false, TargetAddress: null,
+                    ErrorMessage: "No standby available — failing over a lone node would be an outage."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            _log.Warning(
+                "Manual failover requested by central for site {SiteId}: {Target} is leaving the "
+                + "site cluster gracefully; its singletons hand over to the standby.", _siteId, target);
+            Sender.Tell(new SiteFailoverAck(msg.CorrelationId, Accepted: true, target, ErrorMessage: null));
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex)
+        {
+            // A fault here must be reported to the operator, not thrown into supervision —
+            // restarting the communication actor would drop central's Ask into a timeout and
+            // lose the reason.
+            _log.Error(ex, "TriggerSiteFailover for {SiteId} faulted", _siteId);
+            Sender.Tell(new SiteFailoverAck(
+                msg.CorrelationId, Accepted: false, TargetAddress: null, ErrorMessage: ex.Message));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Production failover action: gracefully Leave the oldest Up member carrying
+    /// <paramref name="role"/>, via the shared <see cref="ClusterState.ClusterFailoverCoordinator"/>
+    /// so the central and site paths cannot drift. Injected in tests for the same reason
+    /// <see cref="DefaultIsActiveCheck"/> is — a real Leave needs Akka.Cluster in the
+    /// ActorSystem, which the TestKit system does not load.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="role">Site-specific role scope.</param>
+    /// <returns>Address of the leaving node, or null when there is no peer.</returns>
+    private string? DefaultFailOverRole(string role) =>
+        ClusterState.ClusterFailoverCoordinator.FailOverOldest(Context.System, role)?.ToString();
+
     // ── Internal messages ──
 
     internal record SendHeartbeat;
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/ClusterState/ClusterFailoverCoordinator.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/ClusterState/ClusterFailoverCoordinator.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffdaa32e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/ClusterState/ClusterFailoverCoordinator.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+using Akka.Actor;
+using Akka.Cluster;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.ClusterState;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Deliberate, operator-initiated failover of a two-node cluster: the current active member
+/// leaves GRACEFULLY so <c>ClusterSingletonManager</c> hands its singletons to the survivor.
+///
+/// <para>Lives beside <see cref="ActiveNodeEvaluator"/> — the two share one definition of
+/// "active" (oldest Up member in a role scope), and they must not drift: the node asked to
+/// leave has to be exactly the node hosting the singletons. Placed in Communication rather
+/// than Host because BOTH sides need it — the central pair fails over via the Host's
+/// <c>AkkaManualFailoverService</c>, and a site pair fails over inside
+/// <c>SiteCommunicationActor</c>, which cannot reference Host.</para>
+///
+/// <para><b>Leave, never Down.</b> A Down skips singleton hand-off and hands the outcome to
+/// the downing strategy — the wrong tool for a planned role swap.</para>
+/// </summary>
+public static class ClusterFailoverCoordinator
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Asks the oldest Up member carrying <paramref name="role"/> to leave the cluster.
+    /// Mirrors <see cref="ActiveNodeEvaluator.SelfIsOldestUp"/>'s rule, so the node acted on is
+    /// the singleton host — never Akka's cluster <i>leader</i>, whose address-ordered definition
+    /// diverges from singleton placement once the original first node restarts and rejoins.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="system">Actor system whose cluster is acted on.</param>
+    /// <param name="role">Role scope. Central uses <c>Central</c>; a site pair uses its
+    /// site-specific <c>site-{SiteId}</c> role, since site singletons are scoped to that role.</param>
+    /// <param name="dryRun">Resolve and return the target WITHOUT issuing the Leave. Used to
+    /// name the target in an audit row before acting, and to answer "would this work?".</param>
+    /// <returns>The address that leaves (or would leave), or <c>null</c> when fewer than two Up
+    /// members carry the role — failing over a lone node is an outage, not a failover.</returns>
+    public static Address? FailOverOldest(ActorSystem system, string role, bool dryRun = false)
+    {
+        var cluster = Akka.Cluster.Cluster.Get(system);
+        var withRole = cluster.State.Members
+            .Where(m => m.Status == MemberStatus.Up && m.HasRole(role))
+            .OrderBy(m => m, Member.AgeOrdering)
+            .ToList();
+
+        if (withRole.Count < 2)
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        var oldest = withRole[0];
+        if (!dryRun)
+        {
+            cluster.Leave(oldest.Address);
+        }
+
+        return oldest.Address;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/CommunicationService.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/CommunicationService.cs
index 8a5a40b5..619308f6 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/CommunicationService.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/CommunicationService.cs
@@ -809,6 +809,34 @@ public class CommunicationService
         return await GetSiteCallAudit().Ask<DiscardSiteCallResponse>(
             request, _options.QueryTimeout, cancellationToken);
     }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Asks a site to gracefully fail over its own two-node pair (Task 10). Central and each
+    /// site are SEPARATE Akka clusters, so central cannot act on site membership directly —
+    /// the site's own <c>SiteCommunicationActor</c> performs the <c>Cluster.Leave</c> against
+    /// its site-specific role and acks the outcome.
+    /// <para>
+    /// A site running a binary older than the <see cref="TriggerSiteFailover"/> contract has no
+    /// handler for it, so the message dead-letters and this Ask times out. That surfaces to the
+    /// operator as "site did not respond", which is the honest outcome — an old site genuinely
+    /// cannot honour the request.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="siteId">Target site.</param>
+    /// <param name="correlationId">Correlation id echoed on the ack.</param>
+    /// <param name="cancellationToken">Cancellation token.</param>
+    /// <returns>The site's ack.</returns>
+    public async Task<SiteFailoverAck> TriggerSiteFailoverAsync(
+        string siteId, string correlationId, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+    {
+        _logger.LogWarning(
+            "Relaying TriggerSiteFailover to site {SiteId}, correlationId={CorrelationId}",
+            siteId, correlationId);
+
+        var envelope = new SiteEnvelope(siteId, new TriggerSiteFailover(correlationId, siteId));
+        return await GetActor().Ask<SiteFailoverAck>(
+            envelope, _options.QueryTimeout, cancellationToken);
+    }
 }
 
 /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/Health/AkkaManualFailoverService.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/Health/AkkaManualFailoverService.cs
index ca7a03ce..0ada524e 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/Health/AkkaManualFailoverService.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/Health/AkkaManualFailoverService.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Services;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Interfaces.Services;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Types.Audit;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Types.Enums;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.ClusterState;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Actors;
 
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Health;
@@ -33,19 +35,23 @@ public sealed class AkkaManualFailoverService : IManualFailoverService
 {
     private readonly AkkaHostedService _akka;
     private readonly ICentralAuditWriter _audit;
+    private readonly CommunicationService _communication;
     private readonly ILogger<AkkaManualFailoverService> _logger;
 
     /// <summary>Initializes a new <see cref="AkkaManualFailoverService"/>.</summary>
     /// <param name="akka">The Akka hosted service exposing the cluster's actor system.</param>
     /// <param name="audit">Central direct-write audit writer.</param>
+    /// <param name="communication">Central→site command/control transport, used for site failover.</param>
     /// <param name="logger">Logger.</param>
     public AkkaManualFailoverService(
         AkkaHostedService akka,
         ICentralAuditWriter audit,
+        CommunicationService communication,
         ILogger<AkkaManualFailoverService> logger)
     {
         _akka = akka;
         _audit = audit;
+        _communication = communication;
         _logger = logger;
     }
 
@@ -76,46 +82,63 @@ public sealed class AkkaManualFailoverService : IManualFailoverService
         return target.ToString();
     }
 
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public async Task<SiteFailoverOutcome> FailOverSiteAsync(string siteId, string actor)
+    {
+        // Audit BEFORE relaying, for the same reason as central: the row must exist even if
+        // the outcome is never observed. Unlike central, the acting node is never the one
+        // leaving — but a relay can still time out, and an un-acked request that DID take
+        // effect at the site would otherwise be unattributed.
+        await WriteAuditAsync(actor, target: siteId, sourceSiteId: siteId);
+
+        _logger.LogWarning(
+            "Manual site failover triggered by {Actor} for site {SiteId}; relaying to the site cluster.",
+            actor, siteId);
+
+        try
+        {
+            var ack = await _communication.TriggerSiteFailoverAsync(siteId, Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
+            return new SiteFailoverOutcome(ack.Accepted, ack.TargetAddress, ack.ErrorMessage);
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex)
+        {
+            // Central never buffers for an unreachable site — the Ask simply times out. Report
+            // that distinctly from a refusal, which is a definitive answer FROM the site.
+            _logger.LogWarning(ex,
+                "Manual site failover for {SiteId} did not get an ack from the site.", siteId);
+            return new SiteFailoverOutcome(
+                Accepted: false,
+                TargetAddress: null,
+                ErrorMessage: $"Site did not respond: {ex.Message}");
+        }
+    }
+
     /// <summary>The Akka role scoping central-cluster membership.</summary>
     private const string CentralRole = "Central";
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Oldest Up member with the role leaves — mirrors <c>ActiveNodeEvaluator</c>'s oldest-Up
-    /// rule so the node acted on is exactly the one hosting the singletons. Returns null when
-    /// fewer than 2 Up members carry the role (no peer = failover would be an outage).
+    /// Oldest Up member with the role leaves. Delegates to
+    /// <see cref="ClusterFailoverCoordinator.FailOverOldest"/>, which lives in Communication so
+    /// the site-pair failover path (inside <c>SiteCommunicationActor</c>, which cannot reference
+    /// Host) shares one implementation of the rule.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="system">The actor system whose cluster is acted on.</param>
     /// <param name="role">Role scope for membership.</param>
     /// <param name="dryRun">When true, resolve and return the target without issuing the Leave.</param>
     /// <returns>The address that leaves (or would leave), or null when there is no peer.</returns>
     public static Address? FailOverCore(ActorSystem system, string role, bool dryRun = false)
-    {
-        var cluster = Akka.Cluster.Cluster.Get(system);
-        var withRole = cluster.State.Members
-            .Where(m => m.Status == MemberStatus.Up && m.HasRole(role))
-            .OrderBy(m => m, Member.AgeOrdering)
-            .ToList();
-
-        if (withRole.Count < 2)
-        {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        var oldest = withRole[0];
-        if (!dryRun)
-        {
-            cluster.Leave(oldest.Address);
-        }
-
-        return oldest.Address;
-    }
+        => ClusterFailoverCoordinator.FailOverOldest(system, role, dryRun);
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Best-effort audit row. Audit failure must never block the failover the admin asked for
     /// — the same rule the rest of the Audit Log follows (audit is best-effort; the
     /// user-facing action's own success path is authoritative).
     /// </summary>
-    private async Task WriteAuditAsync(string actor, Address target)
+    private Task WriteAuditAsync(string actor, Address target)
+        => WriteAuditAsync(actor, target.ToString(), sourceSiteId: null);
+
+    /// <inheritdoc cref="WriteAuditAsync(string, Address)"/>
+    private async Task WriteAuditAsync(string actor, string target, string? sourceSiteId)
     {
         try
         {
@@ -124,8 +147,15 @@ public sealed class AkkaManualFailoverService : IManualFailoverService
                 kind: AuditKind.ManualFailover,
                 status: AuditStatus.Submitted,
                 actor: actor,
-                target: target.ToString(),
-                extra: JsonSerializer.Serialize(new { target = target.ToString(), role = CentralRole }));
+                target: target,
+                sourceSiteId: sourceSiteId,
+                extra: JsonSerializer.Serialize(new
+                {
+                    target,
+                    // Central rows name the Central role; site rows name the site, so a query
+                    // can tell which pair an operator moved.
+                    scope = sourceSiteId is null ? CentralRole : $"site-{sourceSiteId}"
+                }));
 
             await _audit.WriteAsync(evt);
         }
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Monitoring/HealthFailoverButtonTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Monitoring/HealthFailoverButtonTests.cs
index 2544e78c..138f5151 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Monitoring/HealthFailoverButtonTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Monitoring/HealthFailoverButtonTests.cs
@@ -153,4 +153,89 @@ public class HealthFailoverButtonTests : BunitContext
 
         Assert.Contains("no standby", cut.Markup, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
     }
+
+    // ---- Site-pair failover (Task 10) ------------------------------------------
+    // Same control, SiteId set. The differences that matter: it calls the site path,
+    // and its confirmation must NOT claim the admin's own page will drop (it won't —
+    // the site is a different cluster).
+
+    private IRenderedComponent<CentralFailoverControl> RenderForSite(int onlineNodes, string siteId)
+    {
+        var host = Render<CascadingAuthenticationState>(parameters => parameters
+            .Add(p => p.ChildContent, (RenderFragment)(builder =>
+            {
+                builder.OpenComponent<CentralFailoverControl>(0);
+                builder.AddAttribute(1, nameof(CentralFailoverControl.OnlineCentralNodeCount), onlineNodes);
+                builder.AddAttribute(2, nameof(CentralFailoverControl.SiteId), siteId);
+                builder.CloseComponent();
+            })));
+
+        return host.FindComponent<CentralFailoverControl>();
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Site_card_confirming_triggers_the_site_failover_path()
+    {
+        Arrange("Administrator");
+        _dialog.ConfirmAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<bool>()).Returns(true);
+        _failover.FailOverSiteAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>())
+            .Returns(Task.FromResult(new SiteFailoverOutcome(true, "akka.tcp://scadabridge@site-a-a:8082", null)));
+
+        var cut = RenderForSite(onlineNodes: 2, siteId: "SiteA");
+        await cut.Find("button").ClickAsync(new());
+
+        await _failover.Received(1).FailOverSiteAsync("SiteA", "tester");
+        await _failover.DidNotReceive().FailOverCentralAsync(Arg.Any<string>());
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Site_card_confirmation_does_not_claim_this_page_disconnects()
+    {
+        // Central failover drops the admin's circuit; a SITE failover does not, and saying
+        // otherwise would train operators to distrust the warning that does matter.
+        Arrange("Administrator");
+        _dialog.ConfirmAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<bool>()).Returns(true);
+        _failover.FailOverSiteAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>())
+            .Returns(Task.FromResult(new SiteFailoverOutcome(true, "addr", null)));
+
+        var cut = RenderForSite(onlineNodes: 2, siteId: "SiteA");
+        await cut.Find("button").ClickAsync(new());
+
+        await _dialog.Received(1).ConfirmAsync(
+            Arg.Any<string>(),
+            Arg.Is<string>(m => !m.Contains("reconnect", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)),
+            Arg.Any<bool>());
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Site_card_surfaces_a_refusal_from_the_site()
+    {
+        Arrange("Administrator");
+        _dialog.ConfirmAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<bool>()).Returns(true);
+        _failover.FailOverSiteAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>())
+            .Returns(Task.FromResult(new SiteFailoverOutcome(
+                false, null, "No standby available — failing over a lone node would be an outage.")));
+
+        var cut = RenderForSite(onlineNodes: 2, siteId: "SiteA");
+        await cut.Find("button").ClickAsync(new());
+
+        Assert.Contains("No standby available", cut.Markup);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Site_card_surfaces_an_unreachable_site_distinctly_from_a_refusal()
+    {
+        // A timeout is not a "no" from the site — the operator must be able to tell the
+        // difference, because the failover may or may not have taken effect.
+        Arrange("Administrator");
+        _dialog.ConfirmAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<bool>()).Returns(true);
+        _failover.FailOverSiteAsync(Arg.Any<string>(), Arg.Any<string>())
+            .Returns(Task.FromResult(new SiteFailoverOutcome(
+                false, null, "Site did not respond: Ask timed out")));
+
+        var cut = RenderForSite(onlineNodes: 2, siteId: "SiteA");
+        await cut.Find("button").ClickAsync(new());
+
+        Assert.Contains("did not respond", cut.Markup);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Pages/HealthPageTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Pages/HealthPageTests.cs
index e7a4663c..04cf08e7 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Pages/HealthPageTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Pages/HealthPageTests.cs
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@ using System.Security.Claims;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Security;
 using Akka.Actor;
 using Bunit;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Authorization;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
 using NSubstitute;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Components.Shared;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Services;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Entities.Sites;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Interfaces.Repositories;
@@ -105,12 +108,43 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
         var user = new ClaimsPrincipal(new ClaimsIdentity(claims, "TestAuth"));
         Services.AddSingleton<AuthenticationStateProvider>(new TestAuthStateProvider(user));
         Services.AddAuthorizationCore();
+        // The failover control's AuthorizeView evaluates the named RequireAdmin policy, so the
+        // real policy set has to be registered or the page throws on any card that renders it.
+        AuthorizationPolicies.AddScadaBridgeAuthorization(Services);
+        // BunitContext pre-registers a placeholder IAuthorizationService that throws when a
+        // policy is evaluated; force the real one (same note as NavMenuTests).
+        Services.AddSingleton<IAuthorizationService, DefaultAuthorizationService>();
+
+        // The cluster cards embed CentralFailoverControl (Task 10), which injects these two.
+        // The page's DI graph genuinely requires them in production, so the test supplies
+        // them rather than the component making its dependencies optional. Behaviour of the
+        // control itself is covered by HealthFailoverButtonTests.
+        Services.AddSingleton(Substitute.For<IManualFailoverService>());
+        Services.AddSingleton(Substitute.For<IDialogService>());
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Renders the dashboard the way the app does — inside a
+    /// <see cref="CascadingAuthenticationState"/>, which the real layout supplies. The
+    /// cluster cards contain an AuthorizeView (the Task 10 failover control), and
+    /// AuthorizeView throws without that cascading value.
+    /// </summary>
+    private IRenderedComponent<HealthPage> RenderHealthPage()
+    {
+        var host = Render<CascadingAuthenticationState>(parameters => parameters
+            .Add(p => p.ChildContent, (RenderFragment)(builder =>
+            {
+                builder.OpenComponent<HealthPage>(0);
+                builder.CloseComponent();
+            })));
+
+        return host.FindComponent<HealthPage>();
     }
 
     [Fact]
     public void Renders_OutboxKpiTiles_WithValues()
     {
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         // KPI data arrives via an async actor Ask after first render.
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
@@ -129,7 +163,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
     [Fact]
     public void RendersLinkToTheNotificationKpisPage()
     {
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
         var link = cut.Find("a[href='/notifications/kpis']");
         Assert.Contains("View details", link.TextContent);
     }
@@ -148,7 +182,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
                 AsOfUtc: DateTime.UtcNow)));
         Services.AddSingleton(auditService);
 
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
         {
@@ -166,7 +200,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
     [Fact]
     public void Renders_SiteCallKpiTiles_WithValues()
     {
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         // KPI data arrives via an async actor Ask after first render.
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
@@ -186,7 +220,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
     [Fact]
     public void RendersLinkToTheSiteCallsReportPage()
     {
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
         var link = cut.Find("a[href='/site-calls/report']");
         Assert.Contains("View details", link.TextContent);
     }
@@ -197,7 +231,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
         _siteCallKpiReply = new SiteCallKpiResponse(
             "k", false, "site call repository unavailable", 0, 0, 0, 0, null, 0);
 
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
         {
@@ -216,7 +250,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
         _kpiReply = new NotificationKpiResponse(
             "k", false, "outbox repository unavailable", 0, 0, 0, 0, null);
 
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
         {
@@ -234,7 +268,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
         // default-site load produces charts.
         SeedSites("site-a");
 
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
         {
@@ -268,7 +302,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
                 throw new InvalidOperationException("kpi history unavailable"));
         Services.AddSingleton(faulting);
 
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
         {
@@ -294,7 +328,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
             LastReportReceivedAt = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.AddMinutes(-5),
         });
 
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
         {
@@ -316,7 +350,7 @@ public class HealthPageTests : BunitContext
             LastStatusChangeAt = changedAt,
         });
 
-        var cut = Render<HealthPage>();
+        var cut = RenderHealthPage();
 
         cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
         {
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteCommunicationActorTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteCommunicationActorTests.cs
index 64f74793..a860dfdb 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteCommunicationActorTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteCommunicationActorTests.cs
@@ -372,4 +372,89 @@ public class SiteCommunicationActorTests : TestKit
         Assert.Equal(isActive, heartbeat.IsActive);
         Assert.Equal("site1", heartbeat.SiteId);
     }
+
+    // ---- Central→site failover relay (Task 10) ----------------------------------
+    // The failover action is injected for the same reason isActiveCheck is: performing a
+    // real Cluster.Leave would require Akka.Cluster in the TestKit ActorSystem. These
+    // tests pin the ROUTING and GUARD logic; the actual Leave against a real two-node
+    // site cluster is covered by SiteFailoverRelayTests in the integration suite.
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void TriggerSiteFailover_IssuesTheLeave_AndAcksWithTheTarget()
+    {
+        var dmProbe = CreateTestProbe();
+        string? roleAskedFor = null;
+        Func<string, string?> failOver = role =>
+        {
+            roleAskedFor = role;
+            return "akka.tcp://scadabridge@site1-a:8082";
+        };
+        var siteActor = Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() =>
+            new SiteCommunicationActor("site1", _options, dmProbe.Ref, null, failOver)));
+
+        siteActor.Tell(new TriggerSiteFailover("corr-1", "site1"));
+
+        var ack = ExpectMsg<SiteFailoverAck>();
+        Assert.True(ack.Accepted);
+        Assert.Equal("corr-1", ack.CorrelationId);
+        Assert.Equal("akka.tcp://scadabridge@site1-a:8082", ack.TargetAddress);
+        Assert.Null(ack.ErrorMessage);
+        // Site singletons are scoped to the site-specific role, not the base "Site" role;
+        // failing over the wrong scope would move the wrong node.
+        Assert.Equal("site-site1", roleAskedFor);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void TriggerSiteFailover_RefusesWhenThereIsNoPeer()
+    {
+        var dmProbe = CreateTestProbe();
+        Func<string, string?> failOver = _ => null;
+        var siteActor = Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() =>
+            new SiteCommunicationActor("site1", _options, dmProbe.Ref, null, failOver)));
+
+        siteActor.Tell(new TriggerSiteFailover("corr-2", "site1"));
+
+        var ack = ExpectMsg<SiteFailoverAck>();
+        Assert.False(ack.Accepted);
+        Assert.Null(ack.TargetAddress);
+        Assert.NotNull(ack.ErrorMessage);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void TriggerSiteFailover_RefusesACommandAddressedToAnotherSite()
+    {
+        // A misrouted command must be refused, not silently acted on — acting would fail
+        // over a site the operator never selected.
+        var dmProbe = CreateTestProbe();
+        var invoked = false;
+        Func<string, string?> failOver = _ =>
+        {
+            invoked = true;
+            return "addr";
+        };
+        var siteActor = Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() =>
+            new SiteCommunicationActor("site1", _options, dmProbe.Ref, null, failOver)));
+
+        siteActor.Tell(new TriggerSiteFailover("corr-3", "site2"));
+
+        var ack = ExpectMsg<SiteFailoverAck>();
+        Assert.False(ack.Accepted);
+        Assert.Contains("site2", ack.ErrorMessage);
+        Assert.False(invoked);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void TriggerSiteFailover_FaultInTheLeave_IsReportedNotThrown()
+    {
+        var dmProbe = CreateTestProbe();
+        Func<string, string?> failOver = _ => throw new InvalidOperationException("cluster unavailable");
+        var siteActor = Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() =>
+            new SiteCommunicationActor("site1", _options, dmProbe.Ref, null, failOver)));
+
+        siteActor.Tell(new TriggerSiteFailover("corr-4", "site1"));
+
+        var ack = ExpectMsg<SiteFailoverAck>();
+        Assert.False(ack.Accepted);
+        Assert.Contains("cluster unavailable", ack.ErrorMessage);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.IntegrationTests/Cluster/SiteFailoverRelayTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.IntegrationTests/Cluster/SiteFailoverRelayTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5853ad13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.IntegrationTests/Cluster/SiteFailoverRelayTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+using Akka.Actor;
+using Akka.Cluster;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.ClusterState;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.IntegrationTests.Cluster;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Real-cluster proof for the central→site failover relay (Task 10). The unit tests in
+/// <c>SiteCommunicationActorTests</c> pin the routing and guard logic with the failover action
+/// stubbed out; this pins the part they cannot — that the shared
+/// <see cref="ClusterFailoverCoordinator"/> actually moves a SITE pair when scoped to the
+/// site-specific role.
+///
+/// <para>The site-specific role scope is the load-bearing detail: site singletons (the
+/// Deployment Manager) are placed on <c>site-{SiteId}</c>, not on the base <c>Site</c> role, so
+/// failing over the wrong scope would move the wrong node.</para>
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class SiteFailoverRelayTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Failing_over_a_site_pair_moves_the_oldest_and_the_survivor_takes_over()
+    {
+        // A site pair, both nodes carrying the site-specific role.
+        await using var f = await TwoNodeClusterFixture.StartAsync(role: "site-SiteA");
+        var oldest = Akka.Cluster.Cluster.Get(f.NodeA);
+        Assert.True(ActiveNodeEvaluator.SelfIsOldestUp(oldest, "site-SiteA"),
+            "precondition: NodeA must be the active (oldest Up) site node");
+
+        // Issued from the other node, as the relay does when contact rotation lands there.
+        var target = ClusterFailoverCoordinator.FailOverOldest(f.NodeB, "site-SiteA");
+
+        Assert.Equal(oldest.SelfAddress, target);
+        await f.NodeA.WhenTerminated.WaitAsync(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
+        await TwoNodeClusterFixture.WaitForMemberRemoved(f.NodeB, oldest.SelfAddress, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
+        Assert.True(ActiveNodeEvaluator.SelfIsOldestUp(Akka.Cluster.Cluster.Get(f.NodeB), "site-SiteA"));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task A_site_role_scope_that_matches_no_member_is_refused()
+    {
+        // Guards the role-scoping mistake directly: asking for a site that isn't this pair
+        // must find no members and refuse, rather than falling back to some other node.
+        await using var f = await TwoNodeClusterFixture.StartAsync(role: "site-SiteA");
+
+        var target = ClusterFailoverCoordinator.FailOverOldest(f.NodeB, "site-SiteB");
+
+        Assert.Null(target);
+        // Positive control: the pair is untouched and still fully formed.
+        await TwoNodeClusterFixture.WaitForMembersUp(f.NodeB, 2, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+    }
+}