Upgrading And Active/Active Failover Configuration - Cisco FirePOWER ASA 5500 series Configuration Manual

Chapter 41 Managing Software, Licenses, and Configurations
When the standby unit has finished reloading, and is in the Standby Ready state, force the active unit to
Step 3
fail over to the standby unit by entering the following command on the active unit.
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active# no failover active
Reload the former active unit (now the new standby unit) by entering the following command:
Step 4
newstandby# reload
When the new standby unit has finished reloading, and is in the Standby Ready state, return the original
Step 5
active unit to active status by entering the following command:
newstandby# failover active

Upgrading and Active/Active Failover Configuration

To upgrade two units in an Active/Active failover configuration, perform the following steps:
Download the new software to both units, and specify the new image to load with the boot system
Step 1
command (see the
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Make both failover groups active on the primary unit by entering the following command in the system
Step 2
execution space of the primary unit:
primary# failover active
Reload the secondary unit to boot the new image by entering the following command in the system
Step 3
execution space of the primary unit:
primary# failover reload-standby
When the secondary unit has finished reloading, and both failover groups are in the Standby Ready state
Step 4
on that unit, make both failover groups active on the secondary unit using the following command in the
system execution space of the primary unit:
Note
primary# no failover active
Make sure both failover groups are in the Standby Ready state on the primary unit, and then reload the
Step 5
primary unit using the following command:
primary# reload
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Use the show failover command to verify that the standby unit is in the Standby Ready state.
"Configuring the Application Image and ASDM Image to Boot" section on
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Use the show failover command to verify that both failover groups are in the Standby Ready
state on the secondary unit.
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