Cisco Firewall :: How To Configure ASA5520 For Active / Active
Mar 17, 2013How to Configure ASA5520 for Active/Active
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View 8 RepliesI have an ASA5520 in location A with an ISP connection and a matching ASA5520 in location B with a separate ISP connection. We have fiber connecting the two locations and vlans passing back and forth so I will be able to configure the failover via a vlan as well as extend the ISP's to each location via vlans. The Active/Active configuration with the multiple security contexts does not seem to be an issue but how is a redundant ISP configured in this mode?We want to have context A using the ASA in location A with ISP1 as the primary and failing over to ISP 2 in locaiton B We also want to have context B using the ASA in location B with ISP 2 as the primary and failing over to ISP1 in location A Would route tracking provide the desired result? Is there a better option?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a pair of ASA 5520s operating in failover pair as active/standby, having two contexts on them. I am planning to share the load and make it active/active making first context active on the primary unit and second context active on the secondary unit. My question is if this will disrupt any connectivity thru these firewalls when I do "no failover" on the active/standby and assign the contexts to different failover groups and enable the failover back.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWe have an Active/Active ASA 5520 setup, as i know in Active/Active setup there is no remote VPN access, So i could overcome this limitations?I have a solution but i dont know if it is ablecable or not? we have a spare ASA 5510, so i can use it behind Active/Active Firewalls and assign a public static NAT IP address to it and open all IPSEC and VPN ports and let the remote users to connect to it, is this ablecable setup or not?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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.
I have two ASA 5510s running in Active/Active mode. I need to make config changes on them. How do I go about it? Do I power off the secondary ASA and make the config changes on the primary and then power on the secondary ASA ? Or this another way to do this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have 2 asa 5520 firewalls including and 1 AIP-SSM-10 module in each of them. the configuration is set using active/active failover and context mode.
Both of them run individualy the IPS module. The IPS is configured using inline mode and fail-open option. However when one of the module fails and the state is changing from up to init or anything else making the IPS to fail then failover is detected and ASA consider it as failover and bounce context to the other unit.
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..
its possible to set up active/active failover using etherchannel on 5585s?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOur 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?
View 8 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. ?
The 6509 Series Switches support the scenario VSS Active-Active Chassis, I would like to setup both switch's as one virtual switch but working at the same time, not with Active - Stand By Chassis.
My plans it to create PortChannel accross both Switches 6509 in order to have 2 links one connected to one slot/switch and the other connected to slot/switch in the second 6509 for servers redundancy.
I am working on a network which has two ISP connections (Active/Active) terminating on router (ASR1000). From the LAN side (6500 switch) all the traffic need to be route on ISP1 but some of the specific subnets like 10.250.0.0/16 need to be route on ISP2 connection.
I am planning to use PBR and NAT with route maps. any documents or refrences are provided.
(access switches)---------(core switch)----------(routers)----------------(ISP1)
----------------------(ISP2)
I faced one problem in our core switch 4507 R . Active sup lost connection and standby came active. We got lot of errors/alerts on console shown below. [Code] Also when I reloaded the switch with reload command only both sups got reloaded but I want to reload all the modules but reload command do not gives any options for that.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe have an Active/Active ASA 5520 setup, as i know in Active/Active setup there is no remote VPN access, So i could overcome this limitations?I have a solution but i dont know if it is ablecable or not? we have a spare ASA 5510, so i can use it behind Active/Active Firewalls and assign a public static NAT IP address to it and open all IPSEC and VPN ports and let the remote users to connect to it, is this ablecable setup or not?
View 1 Replies View Relatedour application team is mandating, that the solution we should come up with for SLB, should support Active/Active mode of SLB operation.
My question, is this mode of operation supported/accredited by Cisco, and what is the draw back from the traditional active/standby.
I need to configure two links (active and failover) on router 2911. Do I need DATA LICENSE to configure this with static router and route-map?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI need to change the username and password ACS uses to connect to AD. I do a "clear configuration" and reboot and am unable to join the ACS appliance back into my AD with a different username and password. I am able to rejoin the ACS machine to the domain using the original username and pass. how to clear all of the AD config off of the appliance and start fresh and use a new account to join AD?
View 3 Replies View Relatednow i have some problem on Cisco Switch 3750 and ASA 5510, i would like to do loandbalancing on Cisco Switch 3750 and Active/Standby on ASA 5510.
which topology that we can use on this diagram, i mean which protocol connect 3750(2unit) to ASA 5510(2unit) and ASA 5510 to 3750, which protocol 3750.
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?
Users cannot download some files from a FTP in a software over VPN Explanation users work with a program and inside the program they download claim (the software goes to the FTP and download the file)
But the program returns an error 3018 in FTPGET. If the user goes to the old PPTP VPN it works like a charm so the problem is the Cisco VPN.
I cannot post my complete config but we use the filter vpn value to associate a special access-list to a user.
The user that has this problem has this as an access-list.
access-list 201 extended ip permit 10.250.128.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.202.0 255.255.255.0
I've made some research and i've added this info
policy-map global_policy
class inspection_default
Inspection ftp
Still doesn't work.
I have to add that normally the internal network is 2.0 and not 202.0 but since we have user with 2.0 at home we had to do this.
So when a user sends a request to 202. the cisco fowards it to the Juniper inside the network and it translate it back to 2.0 Also that is the ONLY thing that doesn't work. The client can work all day on that program and it will work #1 exept when she does the claims
I am also been working on this VPN for 2-3 months without any problems.
I 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 RelatedShould we active IPS feature in ASA 5500-x by useing license?in the 5500-x ordering guide:IPS is only sold as ASA-IPS combo SKUs i.e., one cannot add IPS service as an option on top of ASA SKU. For example, if IPS service is desired on ASA 5515-X appliance, the relevant SKU is ASA5515-IPS-K8 or ASA5515-IPS-K9.But my customer has actived it by using the ASA5525-IPS-SSP on ASA5525-K9.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an asa 5520 that works fine if you are using passive ftp and ftp inspection is on globally. It is not working for an active ftp session. I tried allowing all ports back to the external ip address of the internal client as a test and this did not work either.
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(3)
Device Manager Version 6.2(3)
policy-map Global_Policy
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I read another article saying that this command needs to be on the asa "fixup protocol ftp 21"
If this is enabled will it show on the firewall? How do I enable it?
If the 5510's support active/active ha. There is conflicting info. on the datasheet stating otherwise.
[URL]. As business needs grow, customers can install a Security Plus license, upgrading two of the Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance interfaces to Gigabit Ethernet and enabling integration into switched network environments through VLAN support. This upgrade license maximizes business continuity by enabling Active/Active and Active/Standby high-availability services.
I have an ASA5505 where vlan1 (inside) and all associated ports (e0/1 - e0/7) are down. Workstations on vlan 1 are online and working. Vlan2 (outside) is up and running normally. I tried to shut/no shut on the vlan. I also rebooted the firewall. No change. Why vlan1 is down?? I've attached some config info and some troubleshooting.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI 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.
I have a 5515 ASA that has the webVPN configured on it and it is using active directory to authenticate. The client would like to set up groups in active directory and restrict access to those groups when they are connected to the webVPN. For example, they have a group in active directory that they only want to access their "web" interface. What is the best way to configure this on the asa?
View 2 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 inherited a network redesign project mid implementation and ran across an issue that I was not 100% sure able to be resolved. Implementation is occurring in which the organization is changing over to a different ISP and we have some customers that will not be able to change their settings over to our new addresses from some time. I have seen a lot of posts about fail over and dual ISP configurations, but I could not relate them to this particular scenario.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having a curious problem with two Cisco ASA 5550. They are configured in Active/Standby failover and in routed mode.The problem is: I cannot connect via SSH to the ACTIVE unit, only to the STANDBY. If a switchover is forced the problem is still the same. because it happens both with the primary and the secondary unit.It is not a L2 or a transport problem, because I can ping or access both units via ASDM.
View 8 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 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?
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