Cisco Systems Monitoring Active/Active Failover

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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using ASDM
Chapter67 Configuring Active/Active Failover
Monitoring Active/Active Failover
Step2 Click Reset Failover. Clicking this button on the active unit resets the standby unit.
To restore a failed failover group to an unfailed state, follow these steps:
Step1 Open Open System > Monitoring > Failover > Failover Group #, where # is the number of the failover
group you want to restore.
Step2 Click Reset Failover.
Monitoring Active/Active Failover
Use the following screens in the Monitoring> Properties > Failover area to monitor Active/Active
failover:
•System, page 67-18
•Failover Group 1 and Failover Group 2, page67-19
System
The System pane displays the failover state of the system. You can also control the failover state of the
system by:
•Toggling the active/standby state of the device.
•Resetting a failed device.
•Reloading the standby unit.
Fields
Failover state of the system—Display only. Displays the failover state of the ASA. The information
shown is the same output you would receive from the show failover command. Refer to Cisco ASA 5500
Series Command Reference for more information about the displayed output.
The following actions are available on the System pane:
•Make Active—Click this button to make the ASA the active unit in an active/standby configuration.
In an active/active configuration, clicking this button causes both failover groups to become active
on the ASA.
•Make Standby—Click this button to make the ASA the standby unit in an active/standby pair. In an
active/active configuration, clicking this button causes both failover groups to go to the standby state
on the ASA.
•Reset Failover—Click this button to reset a system from the failed state to the standby state. You
cannot reset a system to the active state. Clicking this button on the active unit resets the standby
unit.
•Reload Standby—Click this button to force the standby unit to reload.
•Refresh—Click this button to refresh the status information in the Failover state of the system field.