Testing The Failover Functionality; Controlling And Monitoring Failover; Forcing Failover - Cisco PIX 500 Series Configuration Manual

Chapter 14 Configuring Failover

Testing the Failover Functionality

To test failover functionality, perform the following steps:
Test that your active unit or failover group is passing traffic as expected by using FTP (for example) to
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send a file between hosts on different interfaces.
Force a failover to the standby unit by entering the following command:
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Use FTP to send another file between the same two hosts.
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If the test was not successful, enter the show failover command to check the failover status.
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When you are finished, you can restore the unit or failover group to active status by enter the following
Step 5
command:
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Controlling and Monitoring Failover

This sections describes how to control and monitor failover. This section includes the following topics:
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Forcing Failover

To force the standby unit or failover group to become active, enter one of the following commands:
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For Active/Standby failover, enter the following command on the active unit:
hostname(config)# no failover active
For Active/Active failover, enter the following command on the unit where the failover group
containing the interface connecting your hosts is active:
hostname(config)# no failover active group group_id
For Active/Standby failover, enter the following command on the active unit:
hostname(config)# failover active
For Active/Active failover, enter the following command on the unit where the failover group
containing the interface connecting your hosts is active:
hostname(config)# failover active group group_id
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Disabling Failover, page 14-50
Restoring a Failed Unit or Failover Group, page 14-50
Monitoring Failover, page 14-50
For Active/Standby failover:
Enter the following command on the standby unit:
hostname# failover active
Or, enter the following command on the active unit:
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Controlling and Monitoring Failover
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