Viewing Monitored Interfaces; Testing The Failover Functionality - Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Configuration Manual

Verifying the Failover Configuration
Table 15-2 Show Failover Display Description (continued)
Field

Viewing Monitored Interfaces

To view the status of monitored interfaces, (from within the context) enter the following command:
primary/contexta(config)# show monitor-interface
For example:
primary/contexta(config)# show monitor-interface

Testing the Failover Functionality

Follow these steps to ensure that failover works:
Test that your primary (active) module is passing traffic as expected by using FTP (for example) to send
Step 1
a file between hosts on different interfaces.
Force a failover to the standby module by entering the following command:
Step 2
primary(config)# no failover active
Use FTP to send another file between the same two hosts.
Step 3
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sys cmd
up time
xlate
tcp conn
udp conn
ARP tbl
RIP Tbl
Logical Update Queue
Information
Recv Q
Xmit Q
This host: Primary - Active
Interface outside (88.1.1.2): Normal
Interface inside (10.6.8.91): Normal
Other host: Secondary - Standby
Interface outside (88.1.1.3): Normal
Interface inside (10.6.8.100): Normal
Options
Logical update system commands; for example, LOGIN and Stay
Alive.
Up time, which the active module passes to the standby module.
Translation information.
TCP connection information.
Dynamic UDP connection information.
Dynamic ARP table information.
Dynamic router table information.
For each field type, the following statistics are used:
Cur—Current number of packets
•
Max—Maximum number of packets
•
Total—Total number of packets
•
The status of the receive queue.
The status of the transmit queue.
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