ASA 5505 Active/Standby Configuration

[snapfulfil001]

Hi, i have 2 ASA 5505 running 8.3(1) and ASDM 6.3(1).

the first unit is currently working, and i now wish to configure the second unit as standby.

im configuring through the ASDM GUI.

Started the HA Wizard, choose Active/Standby configuration and enter the IP of the peer device. checks come back all ok.

On the LAN link configuration page (step 3of6) Interface is pre selected as VLAN99, I give it a logical name as iface_fail, and enter 10.0.0.1 as primary address and 10.0.0.2 as standby, subnet as 255.255.255.248, and select port Ethernet0/5

Note that if i click on the buttons next to the IP fields, i get IP addresses of remote hosts!.

I don't enter a key.

when i click next, nothing happens, any ideas?

Many Thanks

[Kureli Sankar]

Sorry I can't picture the screen that you are talking about.

Here is a very simple procefure.

via CLI on the primary active unit issue "sh run fail"

change the  "failover lan unit primary" to "failover lan unit secondary" and copy all the other lines as they are to the secondary unit. 

Issue "no shut" on the failover interface. You are done. 

CLI failover config guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/security/asa/asa82/configuration/guide/ha_active_standby.html

ASDM failover config guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/security/asa/asa83/asdm63/configuration_guide/ha_active_standby.html

-KS