04-22-2015 10:47 AM - edited 03-11-2019 10:49 PM
Hi
I have a Cisco 5585 running in multi context mode with 4 contexts enabled: Admin, Red, Blue, White
All contexts are assigned to join-failover-group 1
All contexts are currently Active in Primary firewall
Would I be able to failover just the Blue context and make it Active in Secondary FW?
And how?
If I log in to the Active Blue context and issue "failover exec standby failover active", would this cause all group 1 members to failover to Secondary or just the Blue context?
I am reluctant to try this in an production environment and find out that I have to failover the entire group-1.
Thanks
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04-22-2015 11:08 AM
You would need to setup your second failover group and assign 'Blue' to it in the system context:
failover group 2
replication http
polltime interface msec 500 holdtime 5
context BLUE
join-failover-group 2
Context failovers are based on failover-group membership, so all of them would failover.
Also I would wait until a change window to do any failover reconfiguration or testing.
04-22-2015 11:08 AM
You would need to setup your second failover group and assign 'Blue' to it in the system context:
failover group 2
replication http
polltime interface msec 500 holdtime 5
context BLUE
join-failover-group 2
Context failovers are based on failover-group membership, so all of them would failover.
Also I would wait until a change window to do any failover reconfiguration or testing.
04-22-2015 11:15 AM
Thanks thiland...
Once I create and join Blue to group-2, where do I trigger the failover for group-2 from?
Do I trigger the failover from the Security context, or from the Blue context? {suspect it is from the Security context?!!}
My window is at 2AM!
Thanks again.
04-22-2015 11:30 AM
You'd do it from the system context and specify the group.
So if you were on the 02 ASA:
changeto system
failover active group 2
04-24-2015 11:05 AM
Yep...that worked.
Thanks thiland for your quick and prompt reply.
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