02-10-2012 06:33 AM - edited 03-11-2019 03:27 PM
Hello,
I've been giventeh task of adding a second ASA 5510 to a live ASA and making sure that the active/standby failover works, has anyone done this, do I need a crossover cable? I wondered if there is a simple guide you may know of?
Thanks
02-10-2012 07:13 AM
"do I need a crossover cable?" Yes you can use a crossover cable.
Here is a link, might help you all the way.
http://www.cisco.com/image/gif/paws/77809/pixfailover.pdf
thanks
02-10-2012 07:22 AM
Hi Andy,
Per Rizwan's suggestion, you need xover cable or place a small (managed is better) switch and use straight thru cables. It also makes the troubleshoot part easy incase of any failover happens.
Thx
MS
02-10-2012 07:29 AM
"place a small (managed is better) switch and use straight thru cables"
Placing an extra switch creates another single point of failure into the equation.
I deployed countless failover firewalls with a cross cable and runs just fine.
Thanks
02-10-2012 07:26 AM
A regular Ethernet Cat 5 jumper will work as well, with or without an intervening switch.
Follow the configuration guidelines in Cisco's documentation for your version of ASA software:
High Availability Instructions for ASA 8.4 (command line interface)
If you're relatively new to ASA, you can use the wizard in ASDM. See this link, for example.
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