Cisco ASA - how to access standby unit from master unit

[Jimmy Cricket]

I have an active/passive ASA cluster. From the shell of the master unit, is it possible to SSH over to the standby unit?

[TJ-20933766 · Accepted solution]

use the "failover exec standby [add command here]". For example:

firewall(config)#failover exec standby show interface OUTSIDE
Interface Ethernet0/0 "OUTSIDE", is up, line protocol is up
 Hardware is i82546GB rev03, BW 1000 Mbps, DLY 10 usec

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa96/configuration/general/asa-96-general-config/ha-failover.html#task_7751181E02E44B099EE371E112319706

Don't issue configuration commands to the standby unit; those changes are not replicated to the active unit and the two configurations will no longer be synchronized

[Mohammed al Baqari]

No, you can't ssh. As mentioned in the other post, you can issue commands

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