Configuring High Availability; High Availability Overview; Setting Up Unit-To-Unit Ha; Prerequisites - SonicWALL SonicOSX 7 Getting Started Manual

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High Availability Overview

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Setting Up Unit-to-Unit HA

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Configuring Advanced Settings
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Checking High Availability Status
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Monitoring High Availability
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Configuring Multi-Appliance Instance-Level HA
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High Availability Overview
There are three forms of HA supported by the NSsp 15700:
The NSsp 15700 supports three kinds of High Availability:
HA Instances with an NSsp 15700— Instances on one NSsp form high availability pairs. See
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HA Pair on a Standalone NSsp
Multi-appliance instance-level HA — Instances on different NSsp 15700 appliances form HA pairs.
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But not all instances are duplicated on both appliances. See
Level HA.
Appliance-level HA — One appliance fully duplicates another instance. This configuration is
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described in the sections that follow.
NOTE: Licenses must be in place at both instance and appliance level to support HA.
Setting Up Unit-to-Unit HA
This section provides instructions for setting Active/Standby HA between two NSsp appliances.

Prerequisites

Both Primary and Secondary units must be Internet addressable and inter-accessible.
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The Root Instance versions on each unit must be identical.
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Configuring High Availability

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