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active standby module

suthomas1
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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.

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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

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mirober2
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

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

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 .

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

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