topic ASA Active/Standby scenario in Network Security

ASA Active/Standby scenario

mahesh18 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:38:37 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Say we have two ASA config in active and standby.

Hostname is ASA and say ASA1 is active and ASA2 is standby.

IF we make ASA2 as active and reload it then ASA2 should become standby as we have already active ASA1.

Need to confirm if i am correct in this?

Thanks

MAhesh

ASA Active/Standby scenario

Jouni Forss — Sat, 04 May 2013 20:57:56 GMT

Hi Mahesh,

You have physical ASAs ASA1 and ASA2 configured for Active/Standby.

ASA1 is Active at start and ASA2 is the Standby.

If you make ASA2 the Active and then reload it then ASA1 will become the Active and after ASA2 has rebooted it will move to Standby state.

I dont know why you would want to first move an ASA to Active and then reload it. Usually its the Standby device that gets booted. Perhaps because of software upgrades or some other scenario.

But yes, the ASA Failover should behave in the above mentioned way if you were to do what you were suggesting.

- Jouni

ASA Active/Standby scenario

mahesh18 — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:09:14 GMT

Hi jouni,

Thanks for confirming my thoughts as i am not going to do any switchover -- i am just trying to learn the active/standby failover concept from every angle.

Regards

Mahesh