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Chapter63 Configuring Active/Active Failover
Monitoring Active/Active Failover
Step5 When you are finished, you can restore the unit or failover group to active status by 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
Monitoring Active/Active Failover
To monitor Active/Active Failover, perform one of the following tasks. Commands are entered in the
system execution space unless otherwise noted.
For more information about the output of the monitoring commands, see the Cisco ASA 5500 Series
Command Reference.
Feature History for Active/Active Failover
Table63-3 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 failover group Displays information about the failover state of
the failover group. The information displayed is
similar to that of the show failover command but
limited to the specified group.
show monitor-interface Displays information about the monitored
interface. Enter this command within a security
context.
show running-config failover Displays the failover commands in the running
configuration.
Table63-3 Feature History for Active/Active Failover
Feature Name Releases Feature Information
Active/Active failover 7.0 In an Active/Active failover configuration, both ASAs can
pass network traffic.
We introduced this feature and the relevant commands.
IPv6 Support in failover 8.2(2) We modified the following commands: failover interface
ip, show failover, ipv6 address, show monitor-interface.