How can I find active firewall

[dan_track]

Hi

I have an active/standby pair of pix 515e firewalls. How can I find out which one is the active one, and which is in standby?

Thanks for your help

Dan

[r.sneekes]

enter the command:

sh failover

to see the actual status.

[Patrick Iseli · Accepted solution]

Enter the following command:

show faiover

pix(config)# show failover

Failover On

Serial Failover Cable status: My side not connected

Reconnect timeout 0:00:00

Poll frequency 15 seconds

Last Failover at: 18:32:16 UTC Mon Apr 7 2003

This host: Primary - Active

Active time: 510 (sec)

Interface 4th (172.16.1.1): Normal

Interface intf2 (192.168.2.1): Normal

Interface outside (192.168.1.1): Normal

Interface inside (10.1.1.1): Normal

Other host: Secondary - Standby

Active time: 0 (sec)

Interface 4th (172.16.1.2): Normal

Interface intf2 (192.168.2.2): Normal

Interface outside (192.168.1.2): Normal

Interface inside (10.1.1.2): Normal

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2120/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a008017278a.html

sincerely

Patrick

[dan_track]

Hi

Thanks for the replies. It makes things a lot clearer now.

Thanks

Dan