fwsm failover group

[tamil vanan]

Hi

We have configured cisco fwsm with below configuration for failover

failover

failover lan unit primary

failover lan interface FAILOVER Vlan7

failover polltime unit msec 500 holdtime 3

failover polltime interface 3

failover replication http

failover link STATE Vlan8

failover interface ip FAILOVER 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.252 standby 1.1.1.2

failover interface ip STATE 2.2.2.2 255.255.255.252 standby 2.2.2.3

i understand till this ********

how we create this failover group and to which its linked for failover and what is the use of this group..

failover group 1

  preempt

failover group 2

  secondary

  preempt 5

[Kureli Sankar]

You can only configure failover groups when you have active/active setup, which requires multiple context configuration. You can allocate contexts to failover groups.  The admin context always stays in failover group 1.

Refer this act/act failover sample configuration here:

act/act Primary:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/fwsm/fwsm41/configuration/guide/exampl_f.html#wp1049903

act/act Secondary:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/fwsm/fwsm41/configuration/guide/exampl_f.html#wp1049976

-Kureli

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[tamil vanan]

Thanks for the reply, let me check and get back to you if required