Cisco Firewall :: Failover ASA 5580 Unsync With Active
Feb 19, 2012
I have encountered a problem in one of customer that the Active ASA 5580 is unable to sync with Standby Failover ASA. When Active is connected with FO and push the configs to it will not find the ethernet/Gig interfaces due to which the all the configuration were not applied and when the primary ASA the secondary is unable to respond.
When i attached console with the Standby ASA i have seen this error.
Number of interfaces on Active and Standby are not consistent.If the problem persists, you should disable and re-enable failover on the Standby.
For detail undestanding i am attaching the configs of primary and standby ASA. The KHI-DR-ASA-BB-01 is the standyby firewall.
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Dec 21, 2011
I 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.
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Mar 20, 2012
I am looking at deploying a pair of 5585X's in an active/active multiple context state. I am creating Mulitple contexts that need to be able to route to each other. I was going to deploy a type of Gateway context that has a shared interface to all of the other contexts, instead of sharing interfaces directly between the contexts, i beleive this will work as basically i am just cascadng the contexts and sharing interfaces.
The main problem i have come across, is that if i deploy active/active across two appliances using 2 failover groups i can not see a way to route between them, for example.
I have Context 1, Context 2 and Context GW A including the shared interfaces of Con1 and Con2 in failover group 1 on appliance A with the respective standbys on Appliance 2. I have Context 2, Context 4 and Context GW B including the shared interfaces of Con 3 and Con 4 in failover group 2 on appliance B with the respective standbys on Appliance 1.
I need to be able to route traffic between Context GW A and GW B so that the contexts can communicate in normal operation and in failover. I do not beleive that I can share an interface between contexts in two separate failover groups and to be honest without adding a L3 device between the appliances i am not sure if this is possible.
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IPS soft is 6.0(4) and ASA soft is 8.0(3)
I have checked cisco doc and it is confusing to me. it says: "The AIP-SSM does not participate in stateful failover if stateful failover is configured on the ASA failover pair." but it really does participate. Running is not really an option because of production network impact matter..
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But this is the message that I gettin:
Failover message decryption failure. Please make sure both units have the same failover shared key and crypto license or system is not out of memory
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If we switch from primary to secondary firewall the interfaces on the secondary go to state waitung than to failed. after awhile the secondary gives the control to the primary.
it seem that traffic passes the secondary firewall during this short failover time . we have several context created on the firewall, Switch Ports checked , cabeling check everythink checked
blackhole Interface inside (10.255.102.134): Normal (Waiting)
blackhole Interface shared (10.255.102.134): Normal (Waiting)
blackhole Interface inside (10.255.102.133): Failed (Waiting)
blackhole Interface shared (10.255.102.133): Normal
blackhole Interface inside (10.255.102.133): Normal (Waiting)
blackhole Interface shared (10.255.102.133): Normal
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we had such kind of issue: while installing 2 SSM-4GE modules to 2 ASA 5540 (Active/Standby) the firewall is splitted. That's my step:
1) Turn off standby ASA and plug SSM-4GE module
2) Power it On After it was booted up failover relationships were broked and previously stabdby became Active appliance.
3) Turn off active ASA and plug SSM-4GE module
4) Power it On
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