Adding new ASA to failover pair

[mile.ljepojevic]

I have one ASA 5520 up and runnign, with complete configuration (ssl customization, DAP, CSD...) with bunch of files on flash drive, etc. I am using software 8.3

Now I received one 5520 that I want to use failover, it is with 8.3, I will make sure that ASDM is also the same on both...

So, my question is how to make my running ASA to become primary and to push all info (config, files on flash, etc) to new ASA?

I found few examples, but nothing tells me how to force one ASA to be the source for sync.

Thanks.

[PAUL GILBERT ARIAS · Accepted solution]

as soon as you have the failover configuration on the primary unit and the failover configuration on the secondary unit and enable failover on both units they will detect each other and automatically the primary unit will sync the config to the secondary unit. Just make sure the failover interface is up.

[mile.ljepojevic]

Thanks.