active standby module

[suthomas1]

Good Day experts,

As part of our year-start checks, we have to conduct intra chasis switchover test for firewall modules. active & standby are on single 6506.

We are lost how active & standby fail function part can be tested on same switch platform.Please guide me.

Thanks in advance.

[mirober2]

Hello,

The easiest way is to do a 'no failover active' on the Active unit, or a 'failover active' on the Standby unit. This will force the switchover to happen, regardless of the state of the switch chassis. This is described here:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/fwsm/fwsm41/configuration/guide/fail_f.html#wp1053740

There are also a few other failover scenarios you could test listed here:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/fwsm/fwsm41/configuration/guide/fail_f.html#wp1131033

Hope that helps.

-Mike

[suthomas1]

thank you. will the configuration for this test on same platform module switchover be same as modules on two different switches.

does this require some different vlan to be configured .

[mirober2 · Accepted solution]

Yes, the 'failover active' command test is the same, regardless of whether you are using 1 chassis or 2 chassis. This command is run on one of the FWSMs in the pair. The test does not require a special VLAN to be configured. The command simply forces the units to failover to the opposite unit.

-Mike