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Chapter62 Configuring Active/Standby Failover
Monitoring Active/Standby Failover
Monitoring Active/Standby Failover
Note After a failover event you should either re-launch ASDM or switch to another device in the Devices pane
and then come back to the original ASA to continue monitoring the device. This action is necessary
because the monitoring connection does not become re-established when ASDM is disconnected from
and then reconnected to the device.
To monitor Active/Standby failover, enter one of the following commands:
For more information about the output of the monitoring commands, refer to the Cisco ASA 5500 Series
Command Reference.
Feature History for Active/Standby Failover
Table62-3 lists each feature change and the platform release in which it was implemented.
Command Purpose
show failover Displays information about the failover state of the unit.
show monitor-interface Displays information about the monitored interface.
show running-config failover Displays the failover commands in the running configuration.
Table62-3 Feature History for Optional Active/Standby Failover Settings
Feature Name Releases Feature Information
This feature was introduced. 7.0 This feature was introduced.
IPv6 support for failover added. 8.2(2) We modified the following commands: failover interface
ip, show failover, ipv6 address, show monitor-interface.