Is it possible to have an active and standby probe, on different routers

[alexneishell]

My network locations typically have two routers, on is primary, but both are active. Both have tunnels out to the network, so in essence the routers are just redundant hardware. 

We build probes across one router, but, in order to keep the number of active probes down, I'm wondering if you can build a standby set of probes, ones that would become active if router 1 probes retuned a failure condition ( and conversely switched back over after the fail condition cleared)

I imagine this is easily accomplished using hsrp, but we are not set up like that. We do use vrrp on the interfaces though. Anyway, has anyone out there tried doing a set up like this?

[Ashok Kumar]

Hi Alex,

no problem with VRRP, same thing can be achieved via "VRRP with Object tracking"

1. Create the IP SLA & Track on both the routers

2.  Use the same Track in VRRP configuration, & set the decrease in priority once the track goes down

  SUMMARY STEPS

1.    enable 

2.    configure terminal 

3.    track object-number interface type number {line-protocol | ip routing} 

4.    interface type number 

5.    vrrp group ip ip-address 

6.    vrrp group priority level 

7.    vrrp group track object-number [decrement priority] 

- Ashok

[alexneishell]

Appreciate the response Ashok. I will try this in our lab Monday when I get in. 

[Ashok Kumar]

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- Ashok