ASA Failover behaviour

[Hassan Chalabi]

quick question please.

When standby unit become active for any reason (of course except HW failure), does it force its mate to reload?

more like when sec/stby becomes sec/act for any reason does the sec/act force pri/stby to reload? or the pri/stby remain working in monitor?

Thanks,

[Karsten Iwen]

By default there is no reload. The newly standby unit just monitors and is ready to again take over the active role if needed.

[Hassan Chalabi]

Thank you very much, do you have a reference?

[Karsten Iwen]

no reference for exactly this behavior. But the general documentation for FO:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa96/configuration/general/asa-96-general-config/ha-failover.html