topic Testing Procedure for ASA Failover in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/testing-procedure-for-asa-failover/m-p/876935#M955616 <P>Can anyone recommend the best way to run a regular failover test for a pair of ASA firewalls running in Active/Standby please?</P><P></P><P>Is it just a case of making the active unit a standby?</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:58:38 GMT jason.scott 2019-03-11T11:58:38Z Testing Procedure for ASA Failover https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/testing-procedure-for-asa-failover/m-p/876935#M955616 <P>Can anyone recommend the best way to run a regular failover test for a pair of ASA firewalls running in Active/Standby please?</P><P></P><P>Is it just a case of making the active unit a standby?</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:58:38 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/testing-procedure-for-asa-failover/m-p/876935#M955616 jason.scott 2019-03-11T11:58:38Z Re: Testing Procedure for ASA Failover https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/testing-procedure-for-asa-failover/m-p/876936#M955617 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Yes it is making active unit a standby.</P><P></P><P>1 power down the active unit to force failover to the standby unit</P><P>2 check the connectivity through standby</P><P>3 and power on the active unit.</P><P></P><P>or give (in pix os 6.3)</P><P></P><P>on primary device:</P><P>primary(config)#no failover active</P><P>check the connectivity through standby</P><P>after bring back active device by issuing below command on standby device</P><P>secondary(config)#failover active</P><P></P><P>regards</P><P>skrao</P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:04:24 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/testing-procedure-for-asa-failover/m-p/876936#M955617 sivakondalarao 2008-02-04T11:04:24Z Re: Testing Procedure for ASA Failover https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/testing-procedure-for-asa-failover/m-p/876937#M955618 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Skrao, just what I needed.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:07:30 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/testing-procedure-for-asa-failover/m-p/876937#M955618 jason.scott 2008-02-04T11:07:30Z