topic ASA failover in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-failover/m-p/2322039#M416410 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It looks normal. The "show failover history" section of "show tech" will show all of the details of the steps an HA pair cycles through to reach its final state.</P><P></P><P>The more useful command to check current status is "show failover"</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:39:02 GMT Marvin Rhoads 2013-10-20T00:39:02Z ASA failover https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-failover/m-p/2322038#M416409 <P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>We experience an automatic failover from our Cisco ASA, our standby just went active without any changes on the config and problems on our network. We are not able to get some logs during the failover. From the output below, I would like to seek for any help if there is something wrong on the ASA ASA5585-SSP-10 8.2(5) during the automatic failover we encountered.</P><P></P><P>below is part of show tech output.</P><P></P><P>------------------ show failover history ------------------</P><P></P><P>==========================================================================</P><P>From State&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To State&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reason</P><P>==========================================================================</P><P>00:44:30 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Not Detected&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Negotiation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No Error</P><P></P><P>00:44:37 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Negotiation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cold Standby&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Detected an Active mate</P><P></P><P>00:44:39 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Cold Standby&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sync Config&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Detected an Active mate</P><P></P><P>00:44:48 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Sync Config&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sync File System&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Detected an Active mate</P><P></P><P>00:44:48 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Sync File System&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bulk Sync&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Detected an Active mate</P><P></P><P>00:45:01 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Bulk Sync&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Standby Ready&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Detected an Active mate</P><P></P><P>00:58:26 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Standby Ready&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Just Active&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Set by the config command</P><P></P><P>00:58:26 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Just Active&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Active Drain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Set by the config command</P><P></P><P>00:58:26 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Active Drain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Active Applying Config&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Set by the config command</P><P></P><P>00:58:26 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Active Applying Config&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Active Config Applied&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Set by the config command</P><P></P><P>00:58:26 PDT Oct 3 2013</P><P>Active Config Applied&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Active&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Set by the config command</P><P></P><P>==========================================================================</P><P></P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P> Sat, 22 Feb 2020 07:24:25 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-failover/m-p/2322038#M416409 Erland Medrano 2020-02-22T07:24:25Z ASA failover https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-failover/m-p/2322039#M416410 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It looks normal. The "show failover history" section of "show tech" will show all of the details of the steps an HA pair cycles through to reach its final state.</P><P></P><P>The more useful command to check current status is "show failover"</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:39:02 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-failover/m-p/2322039#M416410 Marvin Rhoads 2013-10-20T00:39:02Z