topic How to upgrade PIX 7.x without downtime in Network Security

How to upgrade PIX 7.x without downtime

jong_r0602 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:42:07 GMT

Hi Guys,

Please enlighten me how to do a "zero downtime upgrade" without rebooting my machine. Is there any other command that i need to issue other than "reload"?

Please help me.

Thanks,

Jong

Re: How to upgrade PIX 7.x without downtime

noran01 — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:08:06 GMT

There is no way to do this unless you have a fail-over unit configured. The downtime is very minimal when you reload (usually ~2 mins)

Re: How to upgrade PIX 7.x without downtime

srue — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:40:34 GMT

like the previous poster said, you need a failover unit.

if you don't have one, and your company/business requires zero downtime (or something close), you really should invest in a second identical ASA device.

Re: How to upgrade PIX 7.x without downtime

jong_r0602 — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:23:34 GMT

Thanks guys,

Yes i have a failover PIX but i thought that i can do a zero downtime without rebooting or without terminating my VPN tunnel's so now i now.

Thanks alot,

Jong

Re: How to upgrade PIX 7.x without downtime

darren.perry — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:22:59 GMT

To failover from the Primary PIX to the Secondary PIX without your sessions dropping, log onto the Secondary PIX and issue the command 'failover active'. If you do this via telnet your session will drop and you will need to log back in again.

Re: How to upgrade PIX 7.x without downtime

jong_r0602 — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:43:21 GMT

Thanks for your tip Darren,appreciate it! Problem resolved...

- jong