last night I started upgrading our ASA5520 active/standby cluster. Because of lack of memory, I stopped the upgrade process and will continue when the memory modules have arrived... Currently I'm running 8.0(5) on both nodes (Version: Ours 8.0(5), Mate 8.0(5))Whenever I use the "write standby" command on the active ASA, the passive ASA seems to drop it links for a short while. [code]
View 4 Repliesi never see this before, but on newly purchased just configured firewall.when i do wrtie standby.All interfaces on standby unit flaps.is it some IOS bug? my firewalls are [code] what could be the reason? FYI i am using LAN base failover and not doing any statful fail-over.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have two ASA 5520 version 8.2 in active Standay Mode. What is a good practice to setup IPS AIM ssm-20 for this setup.
Is IPS should be in Fail-Open or Fail-Close mode ?
Is Mangement ip for both IPS module should be same or diffrent. ?
i have a active/standby pair of asa 5520's, i can access the active asa but not the standby asa via console,
i have tried the password recovery on the standby unit but it does not work, do i need to remove the unit from the network to become a standalone unit to perform the recovery?
I got 2 x 5520 ASAs configured in active/standby mode and they are connected to 2 x 4500 switches in which too configured for failover.Telnet to ASAs is allowed only via subnet 172.18.0.0./24
I can only ping and telnet to the active ASA from subnet 172.18.0.0./24 but not the standby But i can ping and telnet to both the active and standby ASAs within the 4500 switches.
Is the preempt option available in active standby ASA firewall setup with single context...somewhere i have read that same is available in active-active setup or active/standby setup with multiple context.If i active the multiple context mode on product environnement with two ASA5520 in Active/Standby mode, what are the impacts on the the production?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am getting ready to setup avtice/standby failover on our ASA 5520's and have run in to an issue.I currently only have one External IP address available. My Idea was to use a private/placeholder IP address for the standby external IP Address, will this cause any issues with the failover? I know I won't be able to access the secondary from the outside, but that is not an issue.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been asked to look at upgrading two 5520 ASA configured in a HA pair Active/Standby, from version 7.2(4) to version 8.3(1) to bring it in line with some other ASA firewalls in the organisation.
My question is can I simply upgrade straight from 7.2(4) to 8.3(1) or will I have to step the upgrade from 7.2(4) => 8.2(x) => 8.3(1)
Having read a few articles on the forums and the release notes I think I should be able to go from 7.2(4) => 8.3(1) .
The second part of my query is around the upgrade itself, having researched this a little there seems to be various views on how to go about upgrading a HA pair and I cannot find anything specific on the website.
The approach I am thinking of is simply as follows;
- upload images onto both firewalls in the HA pair
- On the standby from the CLI
clear configure boot
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I need to configure multiple context mode with active/standby failover solution.
Even after reading some Cisco documents I still can't understand if active/standby failover configuration has to be done within the admin context only or also within every single context (context-1, context-2 for example). In this case I have to allocate as failover interface a subinterface for each context (admin, context-1, context-2), right ?
Therefore a I have an other question: within the admin context, in a failover solution, do I have to allocate all interfaces I want to be moniotred, even though some will be used by context-1 only context and some others will be used by context-2 only context ?
An other question is: if active/standby failover configuration has to be done within each context, can I set regular failover within context-1 while stateful failover within context-2 ?
The last question is: can I use management interface within all 3 contexts ?
We have a pair of 5510s and a pair of 5520s, each in Active/Standby mode. I'd like to upgrade the ASDM and ASA software on these, but am finding no documentation that advises on how this can be done without physical access to the devices. It so happens I am on site, but we will be deploying these throughout our network and I'd like to be able to perform this type of maintenance without travelling to each site. We utilize CSM and ASDM to manage these for the most part, but are certainly capable of configuring via CLI.
The issue may be my lack understanding of the ASA fundamentals, but I don't really get how the software can be copied to the individual ASAs of the pair so they may be reloaded and upgraded without outage. With a remote SSH connection to the pair, I'm only copying the software to the Active ASA, correct? Or is there a way to get the software to each disk individually from the single SSH connection? I'm not quite sure how to manage the Standby ASA without consoling into it... If I can indeed remotely get the software to each ASA (copying to different disks?? i.e. disk0: and disk1:?), then I also run into an issue updating the boot statement for each of them individually, though to resolve that I suppose I could just remove the old software, but that seems like bad practice before confirming the new software is ok.If there is a simpler way of deploying new code via ASDM or CSM, I'm certainly open to that.
I am new to Cisco firewalls. We are moving from a different vendor to Cisco ASA 5520s.I have two ASA 5520s running ASA 8.2(5). I am managing them with ASDM 6.4(5).I am trying to setup Active/Standby using the High Availability Wizard. I have interfaces on each device setup with just an IP address and subnet mask. Primary is 10.1.70.1/24 and secondary is 10.1.70.2/24. The interfaces are connected to a switch and these interfaces are the only nodes on this switch. When I run the Wizard on the primary, configure for Active/Standby, enter the peer IP of 10.1.70.2 and I get an error message saying that the peer test failed, followed by an error saying ASDM is temporarily unable to connect to the firewall.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to setup an active/standby failover with 5520's running 8.4(2) and am having problems with it not dropping connections during the failover. I am using a portchannel from the switch to each ASA and using sub-interfaces off that. I'm using the command Failover mac address Port-Channel1 “mac-address on primary Port-Channel1” “mac-address on standby Port-Channel1”.The command goes through but doing a show interface port-channel1 doesn't show a change in the mac address on the secondary unit after a failover when it becomes active.
View 3 Replies View Related1) 2 x ASA 5520, running 8.2
2) Both ASA are in same outside and inside interface broadcast domains – common Ethernet on interfaces
3) Both ASA are running single context but are active/standby failovers of each other. There are no more ASA’s in the equation. Just these 2. NOTE: this is not a Active/Active failover configuration. This is simply a 1-context active/standby configuration.
4) I want to share VPN load among two devices and retain active/standby failover functionality. Can I use VPN load balancing feature?
Active/Active failover is understood to mean only two ASA running multi-contexts. Context 1 is active on ASA1 Context 2 is active on ASA2. They are sharing failover information. Active/Active does not mean two independently configured ASA devices, which do not share failover communication, but do VPN load balancing. It is clear that this latter scenario will work and that both ASA are active, but they are not in the Active/Active configuration definition. Some people are calling VPN load balancing on two unique ASA’s “active/active”, but it is not
The other confusing thing I have seen is that VPN config guide for VPN load balancing mentions configuring separate IP address pools on the VPN devices, so that clients on ASA1 do not have IP address overlap with clients on ASA2. When you configure ip address pool on active ASA1, this gets replicated to standby ASA2. In other words, you cannot have two unique IP address pools on a ASA Active/Standby cluster. I guess I could draw addresses from external DHCP server, and then do some kind of routing. Perhaps this will work?
Is there a way to access the asa in a failover pair that is in standby mode from the primary asa? IE I am logged into the primary asa via command line and was hoping to access the other asa from here.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to work with two ASA's 5550 in HA (Acitve-Standby) like perimetral firewalls and also work with another ASA 5540 but like a SSL VPN Remote Access to end users.Which will be the best topology to this scenary?. Perhaps i need to put the ASA 5540 SSL VPN together with the ASA's in HA directly in a port.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm having an issue where when I upgrade from 8.2(5) to 8.4(2) on an active/passive asa 5585 running in transparent mode I can no longer reach the standby ip. The BVI interface appears to be created properly, the device IP and standby IP are listed in the config under the BVI interface and my inside and outside interfaces are both joined to BVI1-group.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have this 2x ASA5540 firewall and notice the it is configured with a standby ip. The firewall is run in Active/Passive mode.However, the standby ip of this firewall is not point to the secondary firewall and vice versa for the primary firewall. [code]
1) May i know how is this configuration valid in the first place? I have checked through the configuration. None of the configuration is related to this ip address.
2) Can we remove this standby ip address on both the firewall and correct to the correct primary and seconadary ip address in both firewall?
3) We tried to use this ip address but cannot be used ? Is it related to the configuration of the standby ip address.Do note that the ping to this ip address x.x.x.120 is unreachable.
I have 2 x 5510's in active/standby mode, things look fine until the active one needs to be failed over and I realize the standby one is dead. I never notice as the lights on the ASA look good, I only nice as I can't telnet or console onto it, how can I debug this issue?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have successfully completed HSRP and failover configuration.When both switch are runnign then the failover run successful and wheneber one link fail then the failover run successfully but when down one 6509(total box) the failover not working.....
View 7 Replies View RelatedI can no longer communicate with the standby IP address configured on the inside interface of a secondary ASA5510. Just a couple days ago I could snmp, http, ssh, and ping it.From the switch that is directly connected to the inside interface I'm getting unexpected results when viewing the the arp table. The switch is saying the IP address associated with the ASA's inside interface has mac address 0023.3353.bcc8 but the ASA is saying its inside interface mac address is 0023.33bb.8362?Furthermore when I issue the "sh mac address-table interface f5/46" command on the switch i see multiple macs on the interface that is connected to the inside interface of the ASA...
Unicast Entries
vlan mac address type protocols port
-------+---------------+--------+---------------------+--------------------
135 0023.3353.bcc8 dynamic ip FastEthernet5/46
135 0023.3353.bdc8 dynamic ip FastEthernet5/46
135 0023.3353.bec8 dynamic ip FastEthernet5/46
135 0023.3353.bfc8 dynamic ip FastEthernet5/46
How I can actively monitor the interfaces and overall status of 2 x ASA 5500s in an Active/Standby configuration?
I can setup monitoring of the interfaces on the Active member but I'm not sure how to manage the Standby member?
Come across pix 525 with 7.2.4 , 256 MB RAM, experienceing high memory utilization ?.show memory was giving used memory = 97%.All I had done was, i did a reboot of the firewall since we were not able to take the control of the f/w.I wonder why only the standby f/w had this issue and not the primary does not have, just to rule out that it was not due to Traffic.I have searched in bugtool kits and support forums and did not find anything relevant except for a similar issue for ASA CSCsg43844.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have 2 ASA 5505 running 8.3(1) and ASDM 6.3(1).
the first unit is currently working, and i now wish to configure the second unit as standby. im configuring through the ASDM GUI. Started the HA Wizard, choose Active/Standby configuration and enter the IP of the peer device. checks come back all ok. On the LAN link configuration page (step 3of6) Interface is pre selected as VLAN99, I give it a logical name as iface_fail, and enter 10.0.0.1 as primary address and 10.0.0.2 as standby, subnet as 255.255.255.248, and select port Ethernet0/5
Note that if i click on the buttons next to the IP fields, i get IP addresses of remote hosts!.
I have a pair of asa5520's in active/standby configuration. I plan on ugrading the asa/asdm images to 8.4 shortly (currently on 8.0) and would like to do this with zero downtime. Specifically, I would like to upload the new software to the standby unit, upgrade it, swap standby/active units and then upgrade what will become the standby after the swap.The problem I'm having is getting the new images uploaded onto the standby unit. I've read that the routing table is not shared from the primary and the USB ports are "for future use". I have no problem uploading the new images to the active unit via tftp...but can't do the same to the standby.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there a document that explains how the configurations are updated to the standby ASA and what needs to be manually added tot he ASA? I have two ASA 5510 running ASA ver 8.3(2) and ASDM 6.4(1). When I add static routes to the primary ASA the routes are not sent to the failover ASA. Is this to be expected or do I have a bug?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with failover. On My site I have 2 Firewalls 5580. And I did this configuration on my firewall.interface GigabitEthernet3/0description LAN/STATE Failover Interfacespeed nonegotiate.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've tried to upgrade a redundant setup from 8.2(4)4 to 8.2(5)22 ending with a stanby ASA continuously crashing after config sync phase. On the first crash it even corrupted the flash, leaving me no choice than initializing the box from scratch.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe have two PIX515E ( 6.3), one is Primary( Active) and second one is Standby. after configuration of Secondary Firewall as Standby. getting problem.
1. Configuration part everything is fine
2.we have done failover text also .
Aster Some time , we are not able see Standby Firewall its going down .
I would like to ask you about ASA 5510 (Active/Standby). i have two ASA 5510 and i did configuretion failover and it is working ( Active / Standby) but my issue that when primary donw, the standby unit up to primary but the primary came back the standby unit it not switch to standby ( i mean it still up ) . if i want to primary up i type command ( failover active ) on primary unit , so i don't want use manul command i want it auto.Which command that make ASA failover when primary coma back? [code]
View 2 Replies View Relatedi read that you need only one L-ASA5510-SEC-PL for setting up a Active/Standby Failover. I installed the license on the 1st ASA and tried to setup the failover via the ASDM wizard. It always fails, because the 2nd device can't have a 'base' license.So does this mean, i really need another license?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHere are the configs for failover:
PRIMARY
failover lan unit primary
failover lan interface failover GigabitEthernet0/3
failover interface ip failover 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.3.2
failover link failover GigabitEthernet0/3
failover
SECONDARY
failover lan interface failover GigabitEthernet0/3
failover interface ip failover 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.3.2
failover lan unit secondary
failover
In the above configs is it i m missing something for failover? when i shut the INSIDE interface of Secondary ASA I get the below output, It shows me secondary failed and primary Active, WHY it is showing me FAILED instead of STANDBY/READY. What i know about firewall failover is when active goes down the other becomes standby unit but in this scenario it is showing me FAILED,
FW0001(config)# sh failover
Failover On
Failover unit Secondary
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I currently have a LAN-based failover setup between two 5510s. The failover link is a crossover cable. In the current setup, if I unplug the crossover cable both units become active. From what I understood from Cisco documentation, each unit should mark the failover interface as down and there shouldn't be any failover. That's exactly how I want this setup to work.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have just finished setting up two ASA5510s in Active/Standby Staeful failover, using the Management interface for both failover and state. Everything appears to be working well.Configurations were transferred and the "sh failover" on both accurately reports their status before and after a failing the active device.I monitored the inside IP with a continuous ping (using a Windows client) and noticed that there were usually two to three ping responses lost. Is this normal?
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