5510 Installing High Availability

[TOM FRANCHINA]

We have a 5510 running the following version:

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.2(1)11
Device Manager Version 6.2(1)

WMHFW5510 up 1 year 157 days

Hardware:   ASA5510-K8, 256 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz
Internal ATA Compact Flash, 256MB
BIOS Flash M50FW080 @ 0xffe00000, 1024KB

We would like to install a high availability unit along side the running unit. Will the Primary unit need to be reloaded to complete the configuration and have the second unit become a active standby.

Thanks,

Tom

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

Do you have the Security Plus license on both units? It's a prerequisite on the 5510.

No reload of the Primary-Active will be necessary to add a Secondary-Standby unit.

[TOM FRANCHINA]

Marvin,

Thanks. It appears we have the license:

Licensed features for this platform:
Maximum Physical Interfaces    : Unlimited
Maximum VLANs                  : 100
Inside Hosts                   : Unlimited
Failover                       : Active/Active
VPN-DES                        : Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES                   : Enabled
Security Contexts              : 2
GTP/GPRS                       : Disabled
SSL VPN Peers                  : 2
Total VPN Peers                : 250
Shared License                 : Disabled
AnyConnect for Mobile          : Disabled
AnyConnect for Cisco VPN Phone : Disabled
AnyConnect Essentials          : Disabled
Advanced Endpoint Assessment   : Disabled
UC Phone Proxy Sessions        : 2
Total UC Proxy Sessions        : 2
Botnet Traffic Filter          : Disabled

This platform has an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.