Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5520 Failover Unit Anyconnect Licenses
Jan 2, 2012
So i setup a failover active / passive with 2 ASA5520's
Primary asa has 750 Anyconnect vpn licensing and the secondary asa has 2 Anyconnect licenses
I haven't setup the second asa with the new 750 licenses i purchased but when i do a show version it shows that the failover licensed features shows 750...
Does this mean i do not have to install the secondary anyconnect licenses on the standby ASA unit?
output of secondary asa
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Licensed features for this platform:Maximum Physical Interfaces : Unlimited perpetualMaximum VLANs : 150 perpetualInside Hosts : Unlimited perpetualFailover : Active/Active
What process I need to follow to rebuild my failover unit? I've had to turn it off because it seems that both the primary and secondary were thinking they should both be the active unit. I'm not sure why. But in turning off the failover, I had internet access again. So I think I want to rebuild the secondary unit's configuration. Do I need to turn off failover from the primary unit first? Disconnect the secondary unit, console into it and remove the configuration (command to remove from flash?)? Rebuild the interfaces..all interfaces or just STATE between the units? Just trying to get a list of the process
We just had an issue with our failover unit reloading. In perusing the logs there were a number of %ASA-3-210007: LU allocate x late failed, errors prior to the reload. These units had just had their OS upgraded to fix a DOS issue a few weeks ago. I have not seen the error since it reloaded. However, I was asked to report the issue just in case it is a bug in the new version of the OS.Two units in failover.
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(5)9 Device Manager Version 6.0(2). Compiled on Mon 01-Feb-10 10:36 by buildersSystem image file is
"disk0:/asa805-9-k8.bin"Config file at boot was "startup-config" CP-ASA up 17 days 21 hoursfailover cluster up 17 days 22 hours [code]....
we are running two failover pairs of asa (5510, 5505) in two different locations in active/standby configurations.Is it possible to access the inside ip of the standby unit via vpn terminated by the active unit? It's only for monitoring.With our configuration here it is not.Is that possible in general?
I have a single production 5510 with 2 contexts. Now I want to integrate the secondary failover unit. My question is: How much configuration needs to be done on the secondary firewall? How much of the configuration will be sync'd from the primary to the secondary when the secondary is connected?
For example, do I need to add the following on the secondary or will it be sync'd from the primary?
admin-context NAME context NAME allocate-interface Ethernet0/0.14
i just received a RMA for failed ASA 5520 that was acting as secondary unit in multicontext configuration. What would be correct procedure to install it back in production? Do i need to restore backed up config of the fallen unit or is it just enough to enable multimode and connect to existing (primary) unit? Any good link for documentation that deal with this issues.
i currently have a ASA5540 with 250 SSL VPN Premium licenses and looking to purchase another 500 licenes on top of what i already have.I have been told that i cant simply add 500 licenses onto the 250 to make 750 in total and that i need to purchase a 250-500 licenses or 250-1K licenses. Is this correct? I ask this because on the cisco website, that there is L-ASA-SSL-250-500= & L-ASA-SSL-500-750= part numbers?
Our customer has purchased 2 x L-ASA-AC-E-5520= Anyconnect Essentials VPN Licenses (750 Users)Ive installed both activated licenses as per the cisco guides, I didnt get any errors on the install. I did a reload on both, they are both back up and running as active/standby but when I do a sh ver the license still shows "ASA 5520 VPN Plus License"Am I being dumb and has this worked successfully or should it not now display Anyconnect when I do a sh ver?
I currently have a HA pair of ASA5510's, as I understand it the 2 free premium licenses can be used by the mobile client as long as the ASA has the license for the mobile clients?
Can any one confirm that my understanding is correct, or would i need to buy a seperate Premium license a long with the mobile client license to enable this functionality?
Currently we have one ISP1 and all traffic goes to this way. Suppose our isp1 goes down, our outside user cant get the server. All servers are nated to this ISP1.We planned to purchase a another ISP2. Shall we Configure same inside server to map this ISP2? so that one primary ISP1 goes down it will take place the outside trafficISP2.
Is it possible to setup 2 x Cisco ASA 5520 that are in an Active/Standby failover using sla monitoring?
For example ASA1 outside interface connects to an upstream switch and you setup sla monitor with icmp echo to ping that switch. The switch goes down and you need the other ASA2 to become the Active ASA. Can the sla monitor be automatically integrated with the failover commands for this to happen?
I have an ASA 5520 soft 8.2(3) when i try to configure the any connect I don't get the SSL and the telnet options for the connection. bare in mind that i don't have the any connect software on my asa nor do i have any certificate. is it essential to get a certificate. do i have to buy it knowing that it will only be used by our company's partners. if not how do i get it
I am having ASA 5520 with active/standby configured. Around 2 days ago, the ASA stopped responding & all of my websites stopped working. when i checked the failover status it said that failover is off. I had to manually turn the failover to start my traffic flow.During this time my secondary ASA was not responding. After some time, the primary stopped responding & secondary became active......to solve this i had to make the secondary unit as failover unit primary & the primary unit as failover unit secondary. i did get a log on ASA :-
“(Primary) Disabling Failover” with error message no.105001 which states the below:-
Explanation In version 7.x and later, this message may indicate the following: failover has been automatically disabled because of a mode mismatch (single or multiple), a license mismatch (encryption or context), or a hardware difference (one unit has an IPS SSM installed, and its peer has a CSC SSM installed).(Primary) can also be listed as (Secondary) for the secondary unit.
I have 2 ASA5520's in failover pair.After failing over I cannot run ADSM on the secondary (now active device), I get "unable to launch device manager from [primary address]"
I can ASDM to the primary device (now marked as "standby ready") on the failover address. I can SSH to it also.I CANNOT ASDM to the secondary device (now marked as "active") on the primary address. I CAN SSH to it.
When I run "sh asdm image" I get valid output (asdm image disk0:/asdm-645.bin) on both.However when I run "sh ver" on each it appears ASDM is not running on the secondary device :
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version xxxx [only]
Compared with :
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version xxxx Device Manager Version 6.4(5)
It appears as though ASDM is only running on the primary device (regardless of the fact it is now in standby mode). Is this normal? I am having to run in a failover condition due to a intermittent hardware fault on the primary unit but require access to the ASDM for monitoring/diag purposes during this condition.
Cisco still doesn't provide failover (active/standby) between two different types of ASA, right?
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"The two units in a failover configuration must have the same hardware configuration. They must be the same model, have the same number and types of interfaces, and the same amount of RAM"
i am trying to setup a failover pair on Cisco asa 5520 - need a state full failover. Do i need two ports dedicated to obtain the above - one for LAN based failover and one for state full fail over ? also do i need a switch in between to connect them ?
I have 2 Cisco 5520 ASAs and was configured for Fail over. Unfortunately our Primary ASA went down and Secondary becomes Active and network admin made lots of changes on Secondary Active ASA. What is the best practice to rejoin Primary as standby or active without loosing the existing configuration on Secondary Active ?
I have a running ASA5520 in my network and recently we plan to add a failover pair as a standby unit for the running asa. Both of the ASA have the same specs and software. the only thing that the soon to be secondary ASA does not have is the AnyConnect Essential license. is it still possible for the unit to be the standby unit?
below is the license capture from both of the unit.
Running ASA: Licensed features for this platform: Maximum Physical Interfaces : Unlimited Maximum VLANs : 150
According to the link here:[URL]Starting with Version 8.3(1), it no longer needs to install identical licenses. Typically, we only buy a license only for the primary unit; for Active/Standby failover, the secondary unit inherits the primary license when it becomes active.So I wanna know if there's some additional configuration to synchronize the licenses such as SSL VPN or Context between the primary one and the second one? Or they can just synchronize by default as soon as I finish the failover configuration and when the primary one gets down, the second one will take over the role including licenses automatically?
We have recently got 2 of our Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls through RMA. These are supposed to run in a Active/Active Failover Pair. There was only 1 RMA request that was opened for both the firewalls. We have received only 1 Activation key for this RMA request for both the firewalls. Just want to check with you if this Activation key will work on both firewalls or do we need a get a seperate one for the other box.
Recently, I unable to configure the failover on bridge group in transparent mode . I have five interfaces .out of this only 3 is showing in the show run config . Whether I can config failover on on of the data interfaces.
I have the ASA 5520 with the version ASA Version 7.2(4) <context>
I have a problem with my asa phone proxy. i have two ASA 5520 in HA. I have 10 phone register with ASA active primary. if i execute the command show phone-proxy secure-session. i can see the phone session on the ASA.
if i perform the same command on the passive ASA i can't see the session replicated from the active member.
If i switch the cluster the phone enter in a registrating loop and can't connect to the ASA now active.
If i switch back immediately (the session are still present on the first asa) the phone register again and all works
the ASA have version 8.4(5)
the phone are a 7921g
is normal that the skinny don't start again and re-register the phone on the ASA that became active after failover?
I made an ASDM upgrade for one of my two CISCO ASA 5520. If I copy a file to the primary ASA's flash, is there any command I can run on the primary ASA to copy a file to the secondary ASA?
I have one ASA 5520 up and runnign, with complete configuration (ssl customization, DAP, CSD...) with bunch of files on flash drive, etc. I am using software 8.3Now I received one 5520 that I want to use failover, it is with 8.3, I will make sure that ASDM is also the same on both...
So, my question is how to make my running ASA to become primary and to push all info (config, files on flash, etc) to new ASA?
I found few examples, but nothing tells me how to force one ASA to be the source for sync.
From ASA 5520 we tested the interface failover it not working even the interface are getting monitor .
primary is active.
Manually we shut the outside interface of the primary device configuration is getting reflecting in secondary as outside interface shut. Interface failover not happen.
ii All the interface are getting monitor when we gave command sh failover. even though when we shut outside interface failove not happening.
how to do the interface failover in ASA 8.4 version.
We have a 5520 ASA with a 100 user ssl license. We need to increase this but 250 is overkill. Is there an option to just add 50 more licenses or do we have to go up to 250?
I was trying to assing statefull link as same as LAN failover link on ASA5520 with VPN Plus license. But i am getting the below error. Is there any restriction in the license itself.
we have two ASA 5520, on the failover unit is showing LU allocate xlate failed. We read on [URL] that it could be a memory problem , but have cheked it and we have 85% of memory free on both nodes. We also can see all xlate on failover unit.
We have forced failover this evenig and we can´t stablish outbound connexions by outside interface, we think xlates or nat cant work properly.
I 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.
We apply a new anyconnect mobile license to our primary asa 5520 and the failover feature went into an off state. WE have now applied a second purchased anyconnect mobile to our secondary asa but the failover is still inactive/off.
bcoh1fw50# sh failover state State Last Failure Reason Date/Time This host - Primary Disabled Ifc Failure 14:43:21 EST Jan 30 2013
